No. In Sybase Transact-SQL, the from keyword in a delete statement is optional.

The reason the FROM is optional is that you can do the following in Transact-SQL:

delete mytable
  from mytable m, theirtable t
 where m.somevalule = t.somevalue
   and ...
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The same syntax can be used for UPDATE. Very nice for doing set based operations.

Michael