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

It is fast. Try it:

DELETE FROM YourTABLE
FROM (SELECT TOP XX PK FROM YourTABLE) tbl
WHERE YourTABLE.PK = tbl.PK

Replace YourTABLE by table name, XX by a number, for example 1000, pk is the name of the primary key field of your table.