[sql] Delete sql rows where IDs do not have a match from another table

I'm trying to delete orphan entries in a mysql table.

I have 2 tables like this:

Table files:

| id | ....
------------
| 1  | ....
| 2  | ....
| 7  | ....
| 9  | ....

table blob:

| fileid | ....
------------
| 1  | ....
| 2  | ....
| 3  | ....
| 4  | ....
| 4  | ....
| 4  | ....
| 9  | ....

The fileid and id columns can be used to join the tables together.

I want to delete all rows in table blob where fileid cannot be found in the table files.id.

So using the example above that would delete rows: 3 & 4(s) in the blob table.

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The answer is


DELETE FROM blob
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
    SELECT *
    FROM files
    WHERE id=blob.id
)

DELETE FROM blob 
WHERE fileid NOT IN 
       (SELECT id 
        FROM files 
        WHERE id is NOT NULL/*This line is unlikely to be needed 
                               but using NOT IN...*/
      )