Delete records from two tables

Hi All,
I have two tables (tableA and tableB) and i have four combination primary key.
How can I delete the records from tableA that are not in tableB?
In my sample below I need to delete the records from year 2013.
I have a loop to insert the new ones.
Thanks
Johnny
create table tableA(
keyA_id number,
keyB_id number,
keyC_id number,
keyD_id number,
amount number,
CONSTRAINT "PK_TABLEA" PRIMARY KEY (keyA_id, keyB_id, keyC_id, keyD_id)
insert into tableA(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,1,2011,10);
insert into tableA(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,1,2012,40);
insert into tableA(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,1,2013,20);
insert into tableA(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,2,2011,10);
insert into tableA(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,2,2012,30);
insert into tableA(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,2,2013,20);
create table tableB(
keyA_id number,
keyB_id number,
keyC_id number,
keyD_id number,
amount number,
CONSTRAINT "PK_TABLEB" PRIMARY KEY (keyA_id, keyB_id, keyC_id, keyD_id)
insert into tableB(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,1,2011,10);
insert into tableB(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,1,2012,40);
insert into tableB(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,1,2014,40);
insert into tableB(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,2,2011,10);
insert into tableB(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,2,2012,30);
insert into tableB(keyA_id,keyB_id,keyC_id,keyD_id,amount)
values(1,1,2,2014,30);

r you trying to do something like below ?
Delete from TableA A
where not exists (select 1 from TableB B where
A.keyA_id=B.keyA_id and
A.keyB_id=B.keyB_id and
A.keyC_id=B.keyC_id and
A.keyD_id=B.keyD_id)

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Sridhar,
Thanks a lot for your help.My exact need was to delete records in 50 tables starting with the key table for a specific condition in the key table.
Assume table A has 100 records,B 200 records,C 150 records,D 400 records, etc
When i want to delete some records in table A, i will not be able to do that as child records exists in table B and this structure will carry on till that last table in my application. How do i delete those specific records
Venkatesh

Any way to restore deleted record from VBAP table.

Hi Guru,
Is their any way to restore deleted record from vabp.
Back is taken but , All quality server back is taken, any way to restore only
deleted VBAP data from all Back.
Regards
Durgesh

Hi Sahu ji,
you will not be able to get those records.
Check this : If this issue is in Development than no need to worry.
If in quality and production , then usually a copy of the system is there , and this can help you.
Also , check is there any report that exports this data in some other form for backup.
Hope it help you.

Delete records from internal table using another internal table

HI,
I have two internal tables itab1 and itab2 which have same records initially.Later some records of itab2 are deleted .Then i want to delete those records from itab1 also ie,those records not found in itab2 .Is there any method other than looping.
So that itab1 again becomes equal to itab2.
Thanks in advance.
Sowmya.

Soumya,
Itab1 , Itab2 .
Before deleting the records from itab2 move those records to one more internal table itab3.
Now you have deleted records of itab2 in itab3.
SORT ITAB3,ITAB1 by your main key field.
LOOP AT itab3.
READ TABLE ITAB1 WITH KEY key field = itab3-
keyfield.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
DELETE itab1 where keyfield eq itab3-keyfield.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

Deleting records from compared tables...

Hi all,
I know there are a bunch of posts regarding this issue...but I don't see one that quite fits this scenario. I have two tables with the exact same structure...with key field matnr. I want to delete all of those records from table A where the material does NOT exist in table B. Is there a terse way to accomplish this?

Suresh and Ravi,
you are real good contributors to this forum and i like that.
Not that you give a LOT of answers, your answers even porve quality.
BUT i have one thing. People asking questions here are sometimes not TOO used to the ABAP syntax and other concepts.
SAP noticed that themselves and made some concepts "obsolete", to get a code which is better to read. Especially for newbies.
And well HEADER LINES are obsolete by now.
People not beeing really used to ABAP will have really big Problems in reading things like:
Loop at itab.
endloop.
or even harder:
modify itab.
this shall not be critic in any way, but rather a suggestion on how you can help the better. Accoring to your number of posts thats what you actually want.
thx for convenience.

Deleting records from a table with 12 million records

We need to delete some records on this table.
SQL> desc CDR_CLMS_ADMN.MDL_CLM_PMT_ENT_bak;
Name Null? Type
CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM NOT NULL NUMBER(9)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_ACCT NOT NULL VARCHAR2(5)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_POSTAL_EXT_CD VARCHAR2(4)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_AMT NUMBER(9,2)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_DT DATE
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_NAME VARCHAR2(30)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_ADDR_LINE_1 VARCHAR2(30)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_ADDR_LINE_2 VARCHAR2(30)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_CITY VARCHAR2(19)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_STATE_CD CHAR(2)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_POSTAL_CD VARCHAR2(5)
CLM_PMT_SUM_CHCK_IND CHAR(1)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_TYPE_CD CHAR(1)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_STTS_CD CHAR(2)
SYSTEM_INSERT_DT DATE
SYSTEM_UPDATE_DT
I only need to delete the records based on this condition
select * from CDR_CLMS_ADMN.MDL_CLM_PMT_ENT_bak
where CLM_PMT_CHCK_ACCT='00107' AND CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM>=002196611 AND CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM<=002197018;
Thsi table has 12 million records.
Please advise
Regards,
Narayan

user7202581 wrote:
We need to delete some records on this table.
SQL> desc CDR_CLMS_ADMN.MDL_CLM_PMT_ENT_bak;
Name Null? Type
CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM NOT NULL NUMBER(9)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_ACCT NOT NULL VARCHAR2(5)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_POSTAL_EXT_CD VARCHAR2(4)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_AMT NUMBER(9,2)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_DT DATE
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_NAME VARCHAR2(30)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_ADDR_LINE_1 VARCHAR2(30)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_ADDR_LINE_2 VARCHAR2(30)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_CITY VARCHAR2(19)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_STATE_CD CHAR(2)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_POSTAL_CD VARCHAR2(5)
CLM_PMT_SUM_CHCK_IND CHAR(1)
CLM_PMT_PAYEE_TYPE_CD CHAR(1)
CLM_PMT_CHCK_STTS_CD CHAR(2)
SYSTEM_INSERT_DT DATE
SYSTEM_UPDATE_DT
I only need to delete the records based on this condition
select * from CDR_CLMS_ADMN.MDL_CLM_PMT_ENT_bak
where CLM_PMT_CHCK_ACCT='00107' AND CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM>=002196611 AND CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM<=002197018;
Thsi table has 12 million records.
Please advise
Regards,
NarayanDELETE from CDR_CLMS_ADMN.MDL_CLM_PMT_ENT_bak
where CLM_PMT_CHCK_ACCT='00107' AND CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM>=002196611 AND CLM_PMT_CHCK_NUM<=002197018;

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