How to UPDATE and DELETE records safely in MySQL?
Demonstrates modifying existing rows and removing rows matching WHERE filter conditions.
-- Update employee salary UPDATE employees SET salary = salary * 1.10 WHERE employee_id = 1; -- Delete specific record DELETE FROM employees WHERE email = 'bob.j@example.com'; -- Verify remaining records SELECT employee_id, first_name, salary FROM employees;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) +-------------+------------+----------+ | employee_id | first_name | salary | +-------------+------------+----------+ | 1 | John | 60500.00 | | 2 | Alice | 62000.00 | | 4 | Carol | 75000.00 | +-------------+------------+----------+