JDBC Statement Example – Delete A Record

Here is an example to show you how to delete a record from a table via JDBC statement. To issue a delete statement, calls the Statement.executeUpdate() method like this :

Statement statement = dbConnection.createStatement();
// execute the delete SQL stetement
statement.executeUpdate(deleteTableSQL);

Full example…

package com.mkyong.jdbc;
 
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
 
public class JDBCStatementDeleteExample {
 
 private static final String DB_DRIVER = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
 private static final String DB_CONNECTION = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:MKYONG";
 private static final String DB_USER = "user";
 private static final String DB_PASSWORD = "password";
 
 public static void main(String[] argv) {
 
  try {
 
   deleteRecordFromDbUserTable();
 
  } catch (SQLException e) {
 
   System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
  }
 
 }
 
 private static void deleteRecordFromDbUserTable() throws SQLException {
 
  Connection dbConnection = null;
  Statement statement = null;
 
  String deleteTableSQL = "DELETE DBUSER WHERE USER_ID = 1";
 
  try {
   dbConnection = getDBConnection();
   statement = dbConnection.createStatement();
 
   System.out.println(deleteTableSQL);
 
   // execute delete SQL stetement
   statement.execute(deleteTableSQL);
 
   System.out.println("Record is deleted from DBUSER table!");
 
  } catch (SQLException e) {
 
   System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
  } finally {
 
   if (statement != null) {
    statement.close();
   }
 
   if (dbConnection != null) {
    dbConnection.close();
   }
 
  }
 
 }
 
 private static Connection getDBConnection() {
 
  Connection dbConnection = null;
 
  try {
 
   Class.forName(DB_DRIVER);
 
  } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
 
   System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
  }
 
  try {
 
   dbConnection = DriverManager.getConnection(
                             DB_CONNECTION, DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD);
   return dbConnection;
 
  } catch (SQLException e) {
 
   System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 
  }
 
  return dbConnection;
 
 }
 
}

Result

A record with “user_id=1″ is deleted from table.

DELETE DBUSER WHERE USER_ID = 1
Record IS deleted FROM DBUSER TABLE!