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<h1>sql:delete</h1>
<p><code>sql:delete</code> performs an SQL DELETE statement. This causes a set of rows to be selected from a given table and deleted.</p>
<p>The attributes are as follows:</p>
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<p>connection</p>
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<p>The database connection.
This is mandatory, the value is an expression, which must evaluate to a database connection
object as returned by <code>sql:connect</code>.</p>
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<p>table</p>
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<p>The table containing the rows to be deleted.
This is mandatory, and the value must be known statically (it cannot be defined as an attribute value template).</p>
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<p>where</p>
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<p>The conditions to be applied (the contents of the WHERE clause of the select statement).
This is optional, if present the value is an attribute value template whose value is a SQL conditional expression.
If omitted, all rows in the table are deleted.</p>
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