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DELETE .. WHERE

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The WHERE clause allows for adding a conditional expressions to the DELETE statement, which restricts the rows to be deleted.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

deleteFrom(BOOK).where(BOOK.ID.in(1, 2, 3))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

DELETE FROM BOOK
WHERE BOOK.ID IN (
  1, 2, 3
)

DELETE FROM BOOK
WHERE (
  BOOK.ID IN (
    1, 2, 3
  )
  AND TRUE
)

DELETE FROM BOOK
WHERE (
  ID IN (
    1, 2, 3
  )
  AND TRUE
)

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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