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DELETE .. USING

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

The USING clause allows for a JOIN between the table from which to delete rows with other tables.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

deleteFrom(BOOK).using(AUTHOR).where(BOOK.AUTHOR_ID.eq(AUTHOR.ID)).and(AUTHOR.LAST_NAME.eq("Poe"))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE, Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase

DELETE FROM BOOK
FROM AUTHOR
WHERE (
  BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
  AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
)

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MySQL

DELETE FROM BOOK
USING BOOK, AUTHOR
WHERE (
  BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
  AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
)

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, YugabyteDB

DELETE FROM BOOK
USING AUTHOR
WHERE (
  BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
  AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
)

BigQuery, Hana, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Trino, Vertica

DELETE FROM BOOK
WHERE BOOK.ID IN (
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK, AUTHOR
  WHERE (
    BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
    AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
  )
)

ClickHouse

DELETE FROM BOOK
WHERE ID IN (
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK, AUTHOR
  WHERE (
    BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
    AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
  )
)

DB2, Derby, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB

MERGE INTO BOOK
USING AUTHOR
ON (
  BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
  AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE

Exasol

MERGE INTO BOOK
USING AUTHOR
ON (
  BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
  AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET
  BOOK.ID = BOOK.ID DELETE

MemSQL

DELETE BOOK
FROM BOOK, AUTHOR
WHERE (
  BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
  AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
)

Teradata

DELETE BOOK
FROM AUTHOR
WHERE (
  BOOK.AUTHOR_ID = AUTHOR.ID
  AND AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Poe'
)

Access, Informix

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