RE: Conditional DELETE
quote: Create linked server to Excel File. sp_addlinkedserver N'Excel', N'Jet 4.0', N'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', N'c:\data\MySheet.xls', NULL, N'Excel 5.0' GO sp_addlinkedsrvlogin N'Excel', false, sa, N'ADMIN', NULL GO And run query as following. delete account where acct_id IN (SELECT ColumnA FROM [FROM EXCEL...Sheet1] where ColumnA = 1000) I'm going to have to try this one.
2003-07-24