Use Order By With Delete Statement

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Database
if you are using order by in sub query with delete statement like the below :

 delete from tAccountScoring where riskscoring_id=1 and id in
(select * from tAccountScoring where last_update <= sysdate-3 AND rownum < 3  AND ACC_ID = 251 over (order by last_update desc))

You will have an error :

Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
00907. 00000 –  “missing right parenthesis”
*Cause:   
*Action:

The workaround to solve this issue is simple like the below :

delete from tAccountScoring
where riskscoring_id=1 and id in
(select ID  from (select * from tAccountScoring
where last_update <= sysdate-3 AND rownum < 3  AND ACC_ID = 251 order by last_update))

Thank you
Osama Mustafa

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5 thoughts on “Use Order By With Delete Statement”

  3. there is a logical reason for the order by if you use it with “where rownum <= x" as is used here. No reason to use order by in a delete otherwise.

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  4. yes. sometimes is very important to delete in order.example: you have some delete from a couple of tables in order(to respect foreignKeys).for some performance issues you may conditions delete by intervals(500 rows at the time).if you don't order your delete you can have errors…..

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