How to move then delete field in MySQL

Question

I am trying to move a field from one table to another and then delete it from the first table. The problem I am having is that it moves the data fine, but it is not deleting it

Answer 1

As I understand you trying to move ALL columns from one table (t1) to another table (t2) with same structure (or to table, that contain same columns like in first) and than you want to delete data from table1 that you moved to t2? If correct use next SQL

INSERT INTO t2 SELECT * FROM t1;
DELETE FROM t1 WHERE 1;