delete statement

Specifies the temporary named result set, also known as common table expression, defined within the scope of the DELETE statement.

The SQL DELETE statement enables you to identify (or restrict) the rows you want to delete through a WHERE clause.

The cursor cannot be referenced in a WHERE CURRENT OF clause in an UPDATE or DELETE statement.

To replace data in a table , the DELETE statement must be used to clear existing data before loading new data with INSERT .

READPAST can be specified for any table referenced in an UPDATE or DELETE statement, and any table referenced in a FROM clause.

The OLD TABLE transition table holds the original state of the affected rows before they are processed by the UPDATE or DELETE statement.

An attempt to execute an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement resulted in zero records affected.

This function cannot appear in a DELETE statement's WHERE clause. It is only allowed in queries.

You can use the TOP clause to limit the number of rows that are deleted in a DELETE statement.

Returns information from, or expressions based on, each row affected by an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

You can use OUTPUT with an UPDATE or DELETE statement positioned on a cursor that uses WHERE CURRENT OF syntax.

Specifying NOLOCK or READUNCOMMITTED in the FROM clause of an UPDATE or DELETE statement when applied to the target table of the statement.

For a DELETE statement, specifies the rows to be deleted.

To demonstrate this use of the DELETE statement, create a temporary table, insert several rows, and delete them all, as shown in Listing 1.

These ALTER TABLE statements should be executed with the same care as any INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement that affects many rows.

A searched DELETE statement deletes multiple rows if the search condition does not uniquely identify a single row.

Variable, within its scope, also can be used as a table source in a DELETE statement.

To remove the document, issue a DELETE statement with an appropriate WHERE predicate.

Registered custom stored procedure is executed when a DELETE statement is replicated.

However, the WHERE clause of an UPDATE or a DELETE statement, or the SELECT part of an INSERT statement may be executed in parallel.

For tables with one or more of these characteristics, use the DELETE statement instead.

OPENQUERY can also be referenced as the target table of an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

After a CTE is defined, it can be referenced like a table or view can in a SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

The following example uses the OUTPUT clause in a DELETE statement to return the deleted row to the calling application.

The DELETE statement removes rows one at a time and records an entry in the transaction log for each deleted row.

At most, one INSTEAD OF trigger per INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement can be defined on a table or view.

SET ROWCOUNT also limits the number of rows affected by a searched UPDATE or DELETE statement to integer.

When an INSTEAD OF trigger is defined on DELETE actions against a table or view, the trigger executes instead of the DELETE statement.

AFTER triggers are executed after the action of the INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement is performed.

Sometimes an improperly written delete statement can delete multiple records.

Table_variable must be declared before the INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

For an example, see START SYNCHRONIZATION DELETE statement [MobiLink].

This property is used with parameters that fill values in an UPDATE, INSERT, or DELETE statement (or equivalent stored procedures).

INSERTED cannot be used with the OUTPUT clause in the DELETE statement.

The stored procedure usp_GenerateError executes a DELETE statement inside a TRY block that generates a constraint violation error.

The DELETE statement deletes all rows from the specified table that satisfy an optional WHERE clause.

Any single INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement changes the data in only one table or view.

The object identifier of the custom stored procedure or script that is executed when a DELETE statement is replicated.

In these cases, it strongly recommend that the reader uses the native CLRPFM command rather than the SQL DELETE statement.

The effect continues until a START SYNCHRONIZATION DELETE statement is executed.

The DELETE statement deletes only rows from the table; the table must be removed from the database by using the DROP TABLE statement.

Observe the DELETE statement that has replaced the DROP statement.

Columns prefixed with DELETED reflect the value before the UPDATE or DELETE statement is completed.

Delete constructs a SQL DELETE statement that removes the record.

The DELETE statement is provided all primary key column values.

Delete rows from the synchronized data, as required, using the DELETE statement.

The DELETE statement is used to delete rows in a table.

Data was changed by a DELETE statement.

This type of query creates an SQL DELETE statement.

When the DELETE statement is executed using a row lock, each row in the table is locked for deletion.

Specify that the change should be propagated using an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement (the default for non-SQL Server Subscribers).

After a DELETE statement is executed, the table can still contain empty pages.

The DELETE statement removes one or more rows in a table or view.

If no WHERE clause appears, the DELETE statement remove all rows in the table.

The following example deletes rows in the ProductProductPhoto table based on search criteria defined in the FROM clause of DELETE statement.

The first data modification technique discussed was data deletion, which is performed by using the SQL DELETE statement.

Specify the TABLOCK hint in the DELETE statement.

For an trigger that is fired by a DELETE statement.

And that is what the DELETE statement is doing.

The Degree of Parallelism (7. 0 Insert) event class occurs each time SQL Server executes a SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

Without a where clause in a delete statement, it should return 0

Compared to the DELETE statement, TRUNCATE TABLE has the following advantages

For example, the following pair of calls executes a DELETE statement