如何从具有其他条件的表中删除多行？

Question

I have a table like this:

Id  Name     ProductId

1   Apple    1
2   Apple    null
3   Apple    2
4   Orange   1
5   Orange   2
6   Pear     null
7   Lemon    1
8   Lemon    null

I want to delete a row if it's ProductId is null and if it's Name is occurs more than once.

At this example if I run a proper delete query, it should delete these rows:

2   Apple    null
8   Lemon    null

Which kind of delete query can work for me?

Answer 1

I would recommend using aggregation or something similar before joining:

delete t from test t join
       (select t.name, count(*) as cnt
        from test t
        group by t.name
       ) tt
       on t.name = tt.name
where tt.cnt > 1 and t.product_id is null;

This is much better than a self join without aggregation. Why? Because each row is identified exactly once. In your sample data, a self-join without aggregation attempts to delete row id = 2 twice (once for the match to 1 and once for the match to 3). That is unnecessary. And it can become highly inefficient if a name has many rows.

I also think that you don't simply want a cnt of 2 but you want a non- NULL product id. That is:

delete t from test t join
       (select t.name, count(*) as cnt
        from test t
        where product_id is not null
        group by t.name
       ) tt
       on t.name = tt.name
where tt.cnt >= 1 and t.product_id is null;

Here is a db<>fiddle.

Answer 2

DELETE t
FROM test t
INNER JOIN test t2
   ON t.name = t2.name
WHERE
   t.product_id is null
   AND t2.id <> t.id

https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=mysql_8.0&fiddle=e58dc760d30bfaec4e46be7c80729200