Whenever you want to delete a record from any HSQLDB table, you can use the DELETE FROM command.
Here is the generic syntax for DELETE command to delete data from a HSQLDB table.
DELETE FROM table_name [WHERE Clause]
If WHERE clause is not specified, then all the records will be deleted from the given MySQL table.
You can specify any condition using WHERE clause.
You can delete records in a single table at a time.
Let us consider an example that deletes the record data from the table named tutorials_tbl having id 105. Following is the query that implements the given example.
DELETE FROM tutorials_tbl WHERE id = 105;
After execution of the above query, you will receive the following output −
(1) rows effected
Here is the JDBC program that implements the given example. Save the following program into DeleteQuery.java.
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.Statement; public class DeleteQuery { public static void main(String[] args) { Connection con = null; Statement stmt = null; int result = 0; try { Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver"); con = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/testdb", "SA", ""); stmt = con.createStatement(); result = stmt.executeUpdate( "DELETE FROM tutorials_tbl WHERE id=105"); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(System.out); } System.out.println(result+" Rows effected"); } }
You can start the database using the following command.
\>cd C:\hsqldb-2.3.4\hsqldb hsqldb>java -classpath lib/hsqldb.jar org.hsqldb.server.Server --database.0 file:hsqldb/demodb --dbname.0 testdb
Compile and execute the above program using the following command.
\>javac DeleteQuery.java \>java DeleteQuery
After execution of the above command, you will receive the following output −
1 Rows effected