What I needed was to be able to check each one of those tables, and see if any of the should-be-deleted rows still exist. Of course, I can certainly type this all out by hand…
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM dbo.Table1 WHERE val = 1) SELECT 'Table1 has undeleted rows!' as TableName; IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM dbo.Table2 WHERE val = 1) SELECT 'Table2 has undeleted rows!' as TableName;*Sigh*. I’m already bored. And in reality, I had 45 of these statements, not 15. I’m not a big fan of repetitive, monkey-button work.
SSMS regular expressions are great. I got to see a version of Sean’s linked talk in person and it helped things click in my mind.