My worry is if I say delete evertything with an ID (>79 AND < 296)
then it may literally wipe the whole table...
That wont happen because you will have a where clause. What happens is that, if you have a statement like delete * from Table1 where id between 70 and 1296 , the first thing that sql query processor will do is to scan the table and look for those records in that range and then apply a delete.
