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How to delete from multiple tables in MySQL?

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Can you delete from multiple tables at once SQL?

The syntax also supports deleting rows from multiple tables at once. To delete rows from both tables where there are matching id values, name them both after the DELETE keyword: DELETE t1, t2 FROM t1 INNER JOIN t2 ON t1.id = t2.id; What if you want to delete nonmatching rows?

How do I delete multiple table records in one query in MySQL?

From the manual: You can specify multiple tables in a DELETE statement to delete rows from one or more tables depending on the particular condition in the WHERE clause. However, you cannot use ORDER BY or LIMIT in a multiple-table DELETE. The table_references clause lists the tables involved in the join.

How do you delete a record from multiple tables in SQL?

To remove one or more rows in a table: First, you specify the table name where you want to remove data in the DELETE FROM clause. Second, you put a condition in the WHERE clause to specify which rows to remove. If you omit the WHERE clause, the statement will remove all rows in the table.


Use a JOIN in the DELETE statement.

DELETE p, pa
      FROM pets p
      JOIN pets_activities pa ON pa.id = p.pet_id
     WHERE p.order > :order
       AND p.pet_id = :pet_id

Alternatively you can use...

DELETE pa
      FROM pets_activities pa
      JOIN pets p ON pa.id = p.pet_id
 WHERE p.order > :order
   AND p.pet_id = :pet_id

...to delete only from pets_activities

See this.

For single table deletes, yet with referential integrity, there are other ways of doing with EXISTS, NOT EXISTS, IN, NOT IN and etc. But the one above where you specify from which tables to delete with an alias before the FROM clause can get you out of a few pretty tight spots more easily. I tend to reach out to an EXISTS in 99% of the cases and then there is the 1% where this MySQL syntax takes the day.


Since this appears to be a simple parent/child relationship between pets and pets_activities, you would be better off creating your foreign key constraint with a deleting cascade.

That way, when a pets row is deleted, the pets_activities rows associated with it are automatically deleted as well.

Then your query becomes a simple:

delete from `pets`
    where `order` > :order
      and `pet_id` = :pet_id

Use this

DELETE FROM `articles`, `comments` 
USING `articles`,`comments` 
WHERE `comments`.`article_id` = `articles`.`id` AND `articles`.`id` = 4

or

DELETE `articles`, `comments` 
FROM `articles`, `comments` 
WHERE `comments`.`article_id` = `articles`.`id` AND `articles`.`id` = 4

I don't have a mysql database to test on at the moment, but have you tried specifying what to delete prior to the from clause? For example:

DELETE p, pa FROM `pets` p,
        `pets_activities` pa
  WHERE p.`order` > :order
    AND p.`pet_id` = :pet_id
    AND pa.`id` = p.`pet_id`

I think the syntax you used is limited to newer versions of mysql.


The syntax looks right to me ... try to change it to use INNER JOIN ...

Have a look at this.


To anyone reading this in 2017, this is how I've done something similar.

DELETE pets, pets_activities FROM pets inner join pets_activities
on pets_activities.id = pets.id WHERE pets.`order` > :order AND 
pets.`pet_id` = :pet_id

Generally, to delete rows from multiple tables, the syntax I follow is given below. The solution is based on an assumption that there is some relation between the two tables.

DELETE table1, table2 FROM table1 inner join table2 on table2.id = table1.id
WHERE [conditions]