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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi,</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying unsuccessfully to run a Delete Query and keep getting the fairly common response “Could not delete from specified tables.” I have reviewed many similar posts and still cannot seem to get mine to work. </FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I have 2 tables named “Clients” (larger table) and “DropOuts” (smaller table). Some (but not all) clients in “Dropouts” table are also in the “Clients” table. I want to delete all client records from the “Clients” table that are also found in the smaller “DropOuts” table. There is a one-to-one relationship between these tables.</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>In most of my attempted delete queries, I have included the “Clients” table and a query of the ‘DropOuts’ data (called ‘Q_DropOuts’). I used a query for DropOuts because the DropOut data came from a different data system and the linking field [CID#_Link] needed to be modified in order to match with the CID# from “Clients” table.</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Several Attempts so far result in the right records in a Select Query view but results in “Could not delete….” message when I run it as a Delete Query.</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Attempt #1 (using From “Clients” right join Q_DropOuts ):</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>DELETE DISTINCTROW Clients.*, Clients.[CID#]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>FROM Clients RIGHT JOIN [Q_DropOuts] ON Clients.[CID#] = [Q_DropOuts].[CID#_Link]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>WHERE (((Clients.[CID#]) Is Not Null));</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Attempt #2 (using left join from DropOut query and a non-linking field in Client table as “not null” criteria):</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>DELETE DISTINCTROW Clients.*, Clients.ID</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>FROM [Q_DropOuts] LEFT JOIN Clients ON [Q_DropOuts].[CID#_Link] = Clients.[CID#]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>WHERE (((Clients.ID) Is Not Null));</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Attempt #3a and 3b (using inner joins):</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>DELETE DISTINCTROW Clients.*</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>FROM [Q_DropOuts] INNER JOIN Clients ON [Q_DropOuts].[CID#_Link] = Clients.[CID#];</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>DELETE DISTINCTROW Clients.*</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>FROM Clients INNER JOIN [Q_DropOuts] ON Clients.[CID#] = [Q_DropOuts].[CID#_Link];</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Attempt #4 (using tables and eliminating query as datasource; reformatted linking field directly in query)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>DELETE Clients.*, Clients.ID, [DroppedOut Clients_OL].[Sex] & CStr(Format([DroppedOut Clients_OL].[Birth Date],"mmddyyyy")) & Format([DroppedOut Clients_OL].[Last 4 Ssn],"0000") & [L Name 2 Char] AS [CID#_Link]</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>FROM Clients, [DroppedOut Clients_OL]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>WHERE (((Clients.ID) Is Not Null) AND (([DroppedOut Clients_OL].[Sex] & CStr(Format([DroppedOut Clients_OL].[Birth Date],"mmddyyyy")) & Format([DroppedOut Clients_OL].[Last 4 Ssn],"0000") & [L Name 2 Char])=[Clients].[CID#]));</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Also, I will also be doing a variation on this for a similar database, but where the “Client Interviews” table will contain one or more client records (i.e., where each record is really a client interview). Any client in the “DropOuts” table (or query) will have one or more records deleted from the “Client Interviews” table (where each client may be administered one or more interviews). </FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks very much for any help!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>NOTE: Sorry if this is a duplicate message. I tried to cancel previous oversized version.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>======Access2002, WinXP Profl</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Joyce Robinson [Research Scientist]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>NYS OASAS - Evaluation and Program Monitoring</FONT>
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