Does SQLite support “delete from from”

Question

This is valid syntax on Microsoft SQL Server\'s T-SQL, but not in SQLite, is there an alternative syntax that does the same in SQLite?

DELETE FROM something
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Answer 1

In the general case, move the entire join into a subquery that looks up the primary keys of the rows to be deleted:

DELETE FROM something
WHERE id IN (SELECT something.id
             FROM something
             JOIN combinations ON something.field1=combinations.field1
                              AND something.field2=combinations.field2
             WHERE combinations.something=1234)

If you have a composite primary key, you can use the rowid instead:

DELETE FROM something
WHERE rowid IN (SELECT something.rowid
                FROM something
                JOIN combinations ON something.field1=combinations.field1
                                 AND something.field2=combinations.field2
                WHERE combinations.something=1234)

If you have a composite primary key and you created the table as a WITHOUT ROWID table, you have to rewrite the join as a correlated subquery:

DELETE FROM something
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
              FROM combinations
              WHERE field1 = something.field1
                AND field2 = something.field2
                AND field3 = 1234)