Question

I need to delete all public messages older than a year where Users (message owners, senders) must be from Australia and 21 years old.

I get an error:

***#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘inner join User inner join City inner join Country where Message.messa’ at line 2***.

My texts do not cover even a half of the task, so if anyone could help me here.

Here is my code:

delete 
from Message
     inner join User 
     inner join City 
     inner join Country
where Message.message_type=0 and 
      datediff(curdate(),Message.posted) >366 and 
      User.user_id=Message.owner_id and 
      datediff(User.date_of_birth, 
               str_to_date('1/01/1991', '%m/%d/%Y')) < 366 and            
      City.city_id=User.city_id  and 
      Country.country_id=City.country_id and 
      Country.name='Australia'  

Answer 1

this is because User is a reserved keyword in MySQL so you need to back lit it with quotes User :

DELETE Message
FROM Message
     INNER JOIN `User`
        ON `User`.user_id = Message.owner_id
     INNER JOIN City
        ON City.city_id = `User`.city_id
     INNER JOIN Country
        ON Country.country_id = City.country_id
WHERE Message.message_type = 0 AND
      DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), Message.posted) > 366 AND
      ROUND(DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), `User`.date_of_birth)/365) < 21 AND
      Country.name = 'Australia';

alternatively if you are putting joining condition in WHERE clause then no need to use INNER JOIN :

delete Message
from Message, `User`, City, Country
where `User`.user_id=Message.owner_id and
      City.city_id=`User`.city_id and
      Message.message_type=0 and
      Country.country_id=City.country_id and
      datediff(curdate(),Message.posted) >366 and
      datediff(`User`.date_of_birth,
      str_to_date('1/01/1991', '%m/%d/%Y')) < 366 and
      Country.name='Australia';