Deleting records.

Anyone have ideas on how to delete records (see code below). I keep on getting the error message:

"The column prefix 'employee' does not match with a table name or alias name used in the query."

All I want to do is to remove the records in the EMPRATES table where the EMPLOYEEID and RATE are the same in the EMPLOYEE table. What am I missing?

delete emprates
where
emprates.employeeid = employee.employeeid
and emprates.rate=employee.ratedelete emprates from emprates
inner join employee on
emprates.employeeid = employee.employeeid
and emprates.rate=employee.rate|||delete from emprates
where exists
( select 1 from employee
where employeeid = emprates.employeeid
and rate = emprates.rate )|||I tried both syntax and they both perfomed what I needed. The first one had a lower execution cost though.

Thanks again.sql