MySQL | You can't specify target table 'a' for update in FROM clause

Question

DELETE FROM table_a WHERE id IN(
    SELECT table_a.id AS id FROM table_a, table_b 
    WHERE table_a.object_id = 1 AND table_a.code = \'code\' 
        AND table_a.         


        

Answer 1

There are two (slightly different) syntaxes for deleting from mutliple tables. Here's the one without USING:

DELETE a
FROM 
      table_a AS a 
  INNER JOIN 
      table_b AS b
    ON  b.code = a.code
    AND b.id   = a.b_id   
WHERE 
      a.object_id = 1 
  AND a.code = 'code' 
  AND b.`table` = 'testTable'   --- Do you actually have a column named "table"?