SQL Delete

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SQL Delete records from a table

The SQL DELETE command is used to delete rows or records from a table.

Sample tables associated with this page have shown bellow:

Sample table : daysorder

Sample table : customer1

To remove all rows from the table 'daysorder', the following SQL statement can be used :

DELETE FROM daysorder;

Output

SQL deleting records with where

In this page we are going to discuss, how the WHERE clause along with SQL DELETE command can be used to remove number of rows against some conditions.

Example

To remove rows from the table 'customer1' with following condition -

1. 'cust_country' must be 'Canada',

the SQL statement can be used :

DELETE FROM customer1
    WHERE cust_country='Canada';

Output

Outputs of the said SQL statement shown here is taken by using Oracle Database 10g Express Edition.

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