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The DELETE Statement

To remove records(data) from tables, use the DELETE command. The DELETE statement allows a WHERE  clause that identifies which records to remove. To empty a table entirely by deleting all its records, use the  following syntax: DELETE FROM table_name; To remove only specific records in a table, a DELETE statement needs to be issued with a WHERE clause that  identifies which records to remove: DELETE FROM table_name WHERE …; Note: There is no need to mention any columns since it will delete whole rows at a time. Using DELETE with ORDER BY and LIMIT  DELETE supports ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses, which provide finer control over the way records are  deleted. For example, LIMIT can be useful to remove only some instances of a given set of records. Suppose that the people table contains five records where the name column equals 'Emily'. To keep only one  such record, use the following statement to remove four of the duplicated records. DELETE FROM people WH