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, Databricks, 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
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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