Delete Records from table on the basis of inner join - sql

Question

I have two tables in oracle DB called collection and collection_h. I have to delete all the records from collection_h which has the same below fields in the collection table.
I have to delete all the records from collection_h table that comes out as a result of the below query:
select * from collection inner join collection_h on
collection.pos_protocol_id = collection_h.pos_protocol_id and
collection.terminal_pos_number = collection_h.terminal_pos_number and
collection.cb_file_number = collection_h.cb_file_number and
collection.cb_block_number = collection_h.cb_block_number and
collection.is_stan_batch = collection_h.is_stan_batch and
collection.is_transaction_date = collection_h.is_transaction_date and
collection.is_stan_trans = collection_h.is_stan_trans;

Answer 1

Delete where exists
delete
from collection as c
where exists (
select 1
from collection_h as h
where h.pos_protocol_id = c.pos_protocol_id
and h.terminal_pos_number = c.terminal_pos_number
and h.cb_file_number = c.cb_file_number
and h.cb_block_number = c.cb_block_number
and h.is_stan_batch = c.is_stan_batch
and h.is_transaction_date = c.is_transaction_date
and h.is_stan_trans = c.is_stan_trans
);
Simplified test on db<>fiddle here
But if the columns can have NULL's in the matching rows
delete
from collection as c
where exists (
select 1
from collection_h as h
where decode(h.pos_protocol_id, c.pos_protocol_id, 0, 1) = 0
and decode(h.terminal_pos_number, c.terminal_pos_number, 0, 1) = 0
and decode(h.cb_file_number, c.cb_file_number, 0, 1) = 0
and decode(h.cb_block_number, c.cb_block_number, 0, 1) = 0
and decode(h.is_stan_batch, c.is_stan_batch, 0, 1) = 0
and decode(h.is_transaction_date, c.is_transaction_date, 0, 1) = 0
and decode(h.is_stan_trans, c.is_stan_trans, 0, 1) = 0
);

Answer 2

Delete x from collection X inner join collection_h Y on
X.pos_protocol_id = Y.pos_protocol_id and
X.terminal_pos_number = Y.terminal_pos_number and
X.cb_file_number = Y.cb_file_number and
X.cb_block_number = Y.cb_block_number and
X.is_stan_batch = Y.is_stan_batch and
X.is_transaction_date = Y.is_transaction_date and
X.is_stan_trans = Y.is_stan_trans;