Help on Error:Only one expression can be specified in the select list when the subque

[XolileWarren]

Hi Everyone

I'm trying to create a stored procedure that will delete groups that are in-active for a month.

Table description i have two table which are linked together using groupID, when creating the group group info is stored into the group table including the date group was created, and when posting comment to the group, content is stored into the groupPost table.

I have the isDelete column on both table which is a bit data-type - for the group row to be de-actived i need to set is delete column to true.

where is my stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.DeleteInActiveGroups
AS
UPDATE 
        dbo.GroupPost
SET 
        dbo.GroupPost.isDeleted = 1
WHERE
        dbo.GroupPost.GroupID
IN
(
        SELECT
                *
        FROM
                dbo.Groups
        WHERE
                dbo.Groups.DateCreated < DATEADD(MONTH, -1, GETDATE())
        AND 
                Groups.UserID <> 37 OR Groups.UserID <> 36
)
 

I keep on getting an error:Only one expression can be specified in the select list when the subquery is not introduced with EXISTS.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance

[Atli]

Hi.

That doesn't look like MySQL code to me.
Which SQL server are you using?
Microsoft's SQL Server perhaps?

Let me know and I'll move this to the proper forum.

[XolileWarren]

Apologies, i didn't notice i'v posted to the wrong forum, it's SQL, I'm currently using SQL Server 2005, Enterprise Edition

[ck9663]

Change your subquery to:

SELECT GroupID
FROM dbo.Groups
WHERE
dbo.Groups.DateCreated < DATEADD(MONTH, -1, GETDATE())
AND 
Groups.UserID <> 37 OR Groups.UserID <> 36
 

IN have some problems handling NULL. Read more about it here

Happy Coding!


-- CK