>Edward,
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>I think the problem is that you might run out of records to delete from the latter tables, maybe the process should start with the tables ordered by the number of records to delete to minimize this.
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>Ex. (r records and d records to delete)
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>T1: 500r 30d
>T2: 100r 10d
>T3: 111r 3d && You might already run out of duplicates to delete from this table

Btw, you cannot run out of deletions completely, because the process starts with calculating how many records should be deleted in all tables together. So it might happen that the last table will get too many deletions, but never too less.