delete from MySQL with outer join

Here is the code to delete records from a MySQL tabel with an outer join.

e.g. to delete the records from a products_to_categories table that have no product in the products table:

delete from pc
using products_to_categories as pc
left outer join products p on pc.products_id =p.products_id
where isnull(p.products_id)

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