The DELETE statement removes rows from the table identified by the table-name.

Examples

-- remove the rows matching the condition "i=2" from the database
DELETE FROM tbl WHERE i=2;
-- delete all rows in the table "tbl"
DELETE FROM tbl;

Syntax

The DELETE statement removes rows from the table identified by the table-name.

If the WHERE clause is not present, all records in the table are deleted. If a WHERE clause is supplied, then only those rows for which the WHERE clause results in true are deleted. Rows for which the expression is false or NULL are retained.