>-----Original Message----- >From: Carlos Williams [mailto:carlosw...@gmail.com] >Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:53 AM >To: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: How To Clean Old Table Data > >I have an application that crates a users email info in MySQL every time >they login into the application. The only problem is once I remove their >account from the application/Linux, their user data remains in the MySQL >table and will eventually clutter the database. I don't know how I >should or >can set something up that when I remove someone from the Linux system, I >can >also remove their data from MySQL. > >mysql> select * from identities; >+-------------+-----+----------+-----------------+--------------+------- >----------------+----------+-----+------------+----------------+-------- >-+ >| identity_id | del | standard | name | organization | >email | reply-to | bcc | signature | html_signature | >user_id | >+-------------+-----+----------+-----------------+--------------+------- >----------------+----------+-----+------------+----------------+-------- >-+ >| 1 | 0 | 1 | Carlos Williams | | >car...@ideorlando.org | | | -- >Carlos | 0 | 1 | >| 2 | 0 | 1 | carlos | >| >car...@ideorlando.org | | | NULL | 0 | >2 | >| 3 | 0 | 1 | Carlos Williams | | >car...@iamunix.com | | | Carlos | 0 >| 3 | >+-------------+-----+----------+-----------------+--------------+------- >----------------+----------+-----+------------+----------------+-------- >-+ >3 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > >Above I have connected to the database and I can see 3 users that are no >longer present on the server however their user data is still stored in >MySQL. How can I delete the entire row of data in the table. [JS] Ah, perhaps I misunderstood your question. The SQL command you want is
DELETE identities WHERE email = 'car...@ideorlando.org'; You'll have to do that for each email address, of course. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
