Question

I’m trying to delete multiple rows from multiple tables having the same condition but will always return syntax error.

This is the code:

DELETE FROM table1,table2,table3
WHERE guid = 'CE4EF453-937F-C7F9-7AE429VB0128'

The error code is:

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 ‘WHERE guid = ‘CE4EF453-937F-C7F9-7AE429VB0128” at line 2

Answer 1

You are missing INNER JOINs. Something like the following perhaps.

DELETE FROM table1,table2,table3
USING table1 INNER JOIN table2 INNER JOIN table3
WHERE table1.guid = 'CE4EF453-937F-C7F9-7AE429VB0128'
    AND table2.guid  = table1.guid 
    AND table3.guid = table1.guid

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