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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, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE
DELETE FROM BOOK
USING 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, BIGQUERY, DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MEMSQL, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, 
-- TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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