How to delete the top 1000 rows from a table using Sql Server 2008?

Question

I have a table in SQL Server. I would like to delete the top 1000 rows from it. However, I tried this, but I instead of just deleting the top 1000 rows it deleted all the

Answer 1

delete from [mytab]
where [mytab].primarykeyid in
(
select top 1000 primarykeyid
from [mytab]
)