How to Delete Rows in Oracle SQL
How to delete rows or records from a table in SQL
Delete Command
Delete Command is used to delete records from a database table, we can delete any number of records at a time in a single Delete Command. Delete Command of SQL uses Delete keyword.
The general syntax of Delete Command is as given below
Delete table name [where condition];
Example
Delete employee;
This will delete all the records from employee table.
We can delete particular rows or records of a table.
Delete employee where ename=’Smith’;
This will delete record of Smith only.
Suppose we want to delete records of all that employees whose city is Chandigarh and name is Smith.
The SQL delete statement will be like this: