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WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE

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

When there's a MATCH between SOURCE row and TARGET row, then the TARGET row can be deleted, similar to what the DELETE .. USING clause would allow.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

mergeInto(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE)
    .using(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING)
    .on(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.BOOK_ID.eq(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.BOOK_ID)
        .and(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME.eq(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.NAME)))
    .whenMatchedThenDelete()

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

DB2, Databricks, Derby, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Postgres, Snowflake, Sybase

MERGE INTO BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
USING BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING
ON (
  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.BOOK_ID = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.BOOK_ID
  AND BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.NAME
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE

Exasol

MERGE INTO BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
USING BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING
ON (
  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.BOOK_ID = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.BOOK_ID
  AND BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.NAME
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET
  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME DELETE

Oracle

MERGE INTO BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
USING BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING
ON ((
  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.BOOK_ID = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.BOOK_ID
  AND BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.NAME
))
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET
  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME DELETE

SQLServer

MERGE INTO BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
USING BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING
ON (
  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.BOOK_ID = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.BOOK_ID
  AND BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.NAME
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE;

Teradata

MERGE INTO BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
USING BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING
ON (
  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.BOOK_ID = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.BOOK_ID
  AND BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE_STAGING.NAME
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET
  NAME = BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.NAME DELETE

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DuckDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

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