index hints on deletes

Can I not use index hints on delete statements as below ? Using SQL 2005
delete
from dbo.table1 WITH (index(idx_test))
where col1 <= 5Are you getting an error? If so it would be nice to know what.
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"Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
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> Can I not use index hints on delete statements as below ? Using SQL 2005
> delete from dbo.table1 WITH (index(idx_test))
> where col1 <= 5|||Msg 1069, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
Index hints are only allowed in a FROM clause.
"Andrew J. Kelly" <sqlmvpnooospam@.shadhawk.com> wrote in message
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> Are you getting an error? If so it would be nice to know what.
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> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> Solid Quality Mentors
>
> "Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
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>> Can I not use index hints on delete statements as below ? Using SQL 2005
>> delete from dbo.table1 WITH (index(idx_test))
>> where col1 <= 5
>|||How about this:
delete a
from dbo.table1 AS a WITH (index(idx_test))
where a.col1 <= 5
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"Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
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> Msg 1069, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
> Index hints are only allowed in a FROM clause.
> "Andrew J. Kelly" <sqlmvpnooospam@.shadhawk.com> wrote in message
> news:uhAqFXjUIHA.3400@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Are you getting an error? If so it would be nice to know what.
>> --
>> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>> Solid Quality Mentors
>>
>> "Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
>> news:udtwNEjUIHA.5404@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Can I not use index hints on delete statements as below ? Using SQL 2005
>> delete from dbo.table1 WITH (index(idx_test))
>> where col1 <= 5
>|||or just
DELETE table1 from table1 with(index(idx_test))
WHERE col <= 5
But as far as I can tell from the BOL syntax description, the original
DELETE statement is perfectly legal. Is this some kind of bug?
Linchi
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
> How about this:
> delete a
> from dbo.table1 AS a WITH (index(idx_test))
> where a.col1 <= 5
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> Solid Quality Mentors
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> "Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
> news:OdKr5ujUIHA.4280@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Msg 1069, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
> > Index hints are only allowed in a FROM clause.
> >
> > "Andrew J. Kelly" <sqlmvpnooospam@.shadhawk.com> wrote in message
> > news:uhAqFXjUIHA.3400@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >> Are you getting an error? If so it would be nice to know what.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> >> Solid Quality Mentors
> >>
> >>
> >> "Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
> >> news:udtwNEjUIHA.5404@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >> Can I not use index hints on delete statements as below ? Using SQL 2005
> >>
> >> delete from dbo.table1 WITH (index(idx_test))
> >> where col1 <= 5
> >>
> >
>|||What I'm reading is that DELETE only takes hints from a limited list
<table_hint_limited> and index hints are not in that list.
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"Linchi Shea" <LinchiShea@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> or just
> DELETE table1 from table1 with(index(idx_test))
> WHERE col <= 5
> But as far as I can tell from the BOL syntax description, the original
> DELETE statement is perfectly legal. Is this some kind of bug?
> Linchi
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>> How about this:
>> delete a
>> from dbo.table1 AS a WITH (index(idx_test))
>> where a.col1 <= 5
>> --
>> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>> Solid Quality Mentors
>>
>> "Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
>> news:OdKr5ujUIHA.4280@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> > Msg 1069, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
>> > Index hints are only allowed in a FROM clause.
>> >
>> > "Andrew J. Kelly" <sqlmvpnooospam@.shadhawk.com> wrote in message
>> > news:uhAqFXjUIHA.3400@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> >> Are you getting an error? If so it would be nice to know what.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>> >> Solid Quality Mentors
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Hassan" <hassan@.test.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:udtwNEjUIHA.5404@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> >> Can I not use index hints on delete statements as below ? Using SQL
>> >> 2005
>> >>
>> >> delete from dbo.table1 WITH (index(idx_test))
>> >> where col1 <= 5
>> >>
>> >
>>