We can conditionally select and delete rows from a table using the DELETE statement.

Following is the syntax of the DELETE statement:

DELETE FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

The DELETE statement selects rows from table_name based on a condition and deletes them.

Example: Removing Graduated Students

Consider a table students with the following columns name, age, grade, score, and graduation_year.

We would like to delete all the rows from the table where the graduation_year is less or equal to 2024, since those students have already graduated and we no longer want to retain their data.

This can be done using the following query:

DELETE 
FROM students 
WHERE graduation_year <= 2024;

Demonstration: