有一个表的数据比较大，然后需要进行关联删除，删除的时候发现如下SQL报错：
ELETE FROM test.test1 a WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM test.test2 b WHERE a.recordID=b.smsInfoID AND b.receiveTime <="2011-10-09 00:00:00" ) limit 1000;
报错如下：
Error Code: 1064
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'a WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM test.test2 b WHERE a.recordID=b.smsInf' at line 1
开始以为是exists的问题，于是更改成in再测试，也报同样错：
DELETE FROM test.test1 a WHERE a.recordid IN (SELECT b.smsInfoID FROM test.test2 b WHERE b.receiveTime <= "2011-10-09 00:00:00") LIMIT 1000;
将别名去掉就可以了，将上面两个报错的SQL更改成如下形式就可以了：
DELETE FROM test.test1 WHERE recordid IN (SELECT smsInfoID FROM test.test2 WHERE receiveTime <= "2011-10-09 00:00:00") LIMIT 1000;
DELETE FROM test.test1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM test.test2 WHERE test1.recordID=test2.smsInfoID AND test2.receiveTime <= "2011-10-09 00:00:00") LIMIT 1000;
通过网友的指点，发现可以通过别名删除，只是语法有点奇怪，下面支持别名的语法：
DELETE test.a FROM test.test1 a WHERE a.recordid IN (SELECT b.smsInfoID FROM test.test2 b WHERE b.receiveTime <= "2011-10-09 00:00:00") LIMIT 1000;
原文（http://blog.chinaunix.net/uid/122369.html）