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DELETE .. RETURNING
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The RETURNING clause allows for returning expressions based on the deleted rows.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
deleteFrom(BOOK).where(BOOK.ID.eq(1)).returningResult(BOOK.TITLE)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Firebird, Postgres, SQLite, YugabyteDB
DELETE FROM BOOK WHERE BOOK.ID = 1 RETURNING BOOK.TITLE
DB2, H2
SELECT TITLE FROM OLD TABLE ( DELETE FROM BOOK WHERE BOOK.ID = 1 ) BOOK
MariaDB
DELETE FROM BOOK WHERE BOOK.ID = 1 RETURNING TITLE
Oracle
DECLARE o0 DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE; c0 sys_refcursor; BEGIN DELETE FROM BOOK WHERE BOOK.ID = 1 RETURNING BOOK.TITLE BULK COLLECT INTO o0; ? := SQL%ROWCOUNT; OPEN c0 FOR SELECT * FROM TABLE(o0); ? := c0; END;
SQLServer
DELETE FROM BOOK OUTPUT deleted.TITLE WHERE BOOK.ID = 1
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
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