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You can delete records from an existing table by using the "DELETE FROM" statement:
Delete any record with the address "Mountain 21":
let mysql = require('mysql');
let con = mysql.createConnection({
host: "localhost", user: "yourusername", password: "yourpassword", database: "mydb"
});
con.connect(function(err) {
if (err) throw err;
let sql = "DELETE FROM customers WHERE address = 'Mountain 21'";
con.query(
sql, function (err, result) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log("Number of records deleted: " + result.affectedRows);
});
});Notice the WHERE clause in the DELETE syntax: The WHERE clause specifies which record or records that should be deleted. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records will be deleted! Save the code above in a file called "demo_db_delete.js" and run the file: Run "demo_db_delete.js" C:\Users\
>node demo_db_delete.js Which will give you this result:
When executing a query, a result object is returned. The result object contains information about how the query affected the table. The result object returned from the example above looks like this:
{
fieldCount: 0, affectedRows: 1, insertId: 0, serverStatus: 34, warningCount: 0, message: '', protocol41: true, changedRows: 0
}The values of the properties can be displayed like this:
Return the number of affected rows:
console.log(result.affectedRows)