While cleaning up data you may create orphan records (before you have created FK constraints). This script purges orphan records from a child table. It takes the arguments of parent_table, child_table and linking_field and then finds all the child records with no parent record and deletes them.
For SQL Server 6.5
Author: Tom De Lancey
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sp_deleteorphans.SQL
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