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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:

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

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

BigQuery

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

ClickHouse

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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