Can I use Order By in a delete query

Hey everybody,
I have an issue to delete old records for "my recent projects' based on the customization (5 prjs in a shot like that.)
I am just firing a sub query to do this
like.... DELETE FROM TABLE_NAME1 WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM TABLE_NAME1 WHERE ROWNUM<=5 ORDER BY UPDATED_ON DESC)
But in this case I am getting "Right paranthesis missing" error......
Please help me anyboddy......
Thanks in advance..........

First, it doesn't make sense to put an ORDER BY there. You're asking for an arbitrary 5 rows and then sorting those 5 rows, but the order of results in an IN clause is irrelevant.
Potentially, you meant something like
DELETE FROM table_name
WHERE id IN (
    SELECT id
        FROM (SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY updated_on DESC)
      WHERE rownum <= 5
);Justin
I see intss beat me to the punch.
Message was edited by:
Justin Cave

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