Delete with Join in MySQL

Question

Here is the script to create my tables:

CREATE TABLE clients (
   client_i INT(11),
   PRIMARY KEY (client_id)
);
CREATE TABLE projects (
   project_id INT(         


        

Answer 1

Single Table Delete:

In order to delete entries from posts table:

DELETE ps 
FROM clients C 
INNER JOIN projects pj ON C.client_id = pj.client_id
INNER JOIN posts ps ON pj.project_id = ps.project_id
WHERE C.client_id = :client_id;

In order to delete entries from projects table:

DELETE pj 
FROM clients C 
INNER JOIN projects pj ON C.client_id = pj.client_id
INNER JOIN posts ps ON pj.project_id = ps.project_id
WHERE C.client_id = :client_id;

In order to delete entries from clients table:

DELETE C
FROM clients C 
INNER JOIN projects pj ON C.client_id = pj.client_id
INNER JOIN posts ps ON pj.project_id = ps.project_id
WHERE C.client_id = :client_id;

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Multiple Tables Delete:

In order to delete entries from multiple tables out of the joined results you need to specify the table names after DELETE as comma separated list:

Suppose you want to delete entries from all the three tables (posts,projects,clients) for a particular client :

DELETE C,pj,ps 
FROM clients C 
INNER JOIN projects pj ON C.client_id = pj.client_id
INNER JOIN posts ps ON pj.project_id = ps.project_id
WHERE C.client_id = :client_id