DELETE statement
Use the DELETE
statement to delete records from a database table. The format of the DELETE
statement is:
DELETE FROM table_name [ WHERE { conditions } ]
Note The WHERE
clause determines which records are to be deleted. If you don’t include the WHERE
keyword, all records in the table are deleted (but the table is left intact).
Delete a record from emp table.
DELETE FROM emp WHERE emp_id = 'E10001'
Each DELETE
statement removes every record that meets the conditions in the WHERE
clause. In this case, every record having the employee ID E10001
is deleted. Because employee IDs are unique in the Employee table, only one record is deleted.