DELETE - Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
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DELETE

Use the DELETE statement to remove a row from a table.

Syntax

delete_statement ::=  DELETE [ simple_selection ( ',' simple_selection ) ]
                      FROM table_name
                      [ USING update_parameter ( AND update_parameter )* ]
                      WHERE where_clause
                      [ IF ( EXISTS | condition ( AND condition )*) ]

simple_selection ::=  column_name
                     | column_name '[' term ']'
                     | column_name '.' `field_name

condition        ::=  simple_selection operator term

Where:

  • table_name is the table that contains the row you want to delete.

Example

DELETE manager_id FROM "myGSGKeyspace".employees_tbl WHERE id='789-01-2345' AND division='Executive' ;

DELETE supports the following value as update_parameter:

  • TIMESTAMP – A bigint value representing the number of microseconds since the standard base time known as the epoch: January 1 1970 at 00:00:00 GMT.