Delete many rows from a table using id in Mysql

Question

I am a Linux admin with only basic knowledge in Mysql Queries

I want to delete many table entries which are ip address from my table using id,

Answer 1

how about using IN

DELETE FROM tableName
WHERE ID IN (1,2) -- add as many ID as you want.

Answer 2

Something like this might make it a bit easier, you could obviously use a script to generate this, or even excel

DELETE FROM tablename WHERE id IN (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6
);

Answer 3

If you have some 'condition' in your data to figure out the 254 ids, you could use:

delete from tablename
where id in 
(select id from tablename where <your-condition>)

or simply:

delete from tablename where <your-condition>

Simply hard coding the 254 values of id column would be very tough in any case.

Answer 4

if you need to keep only a few rows, consider

DELETE FROM tablename WHERE id NOT IN (5,124,221);

This will keep only some records and discard others.

Answer 5

Hope it helps:

DELETE FROM tablename 
WHERE tablename.id = ANY (SELECT id FROM tablename WHERE id = id);

Answer 6

The best way is to use IN statement :

DELETE from tablename WHERE id IN (1,2,3,...,254);

You can also use BETWEEN if you have consecutive IDs :

DELETE from tablename WHERE id BETWEEN 1 AND 254;

You can of course limit for some IDs using other WHERE clause :

DELETE from tablename WHERE id BETWEEN 1 AND 254 AND id<>10;