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Delete or update statement without where clauses

Reports usages of DELETE or UPDATE statements without WHERE clauses.

Without WHERE clauses, DELETE drops all the data from the table, and UPDATE overwrites values for all the table rows.

Example (MySQL):

CREATE TABLE t1 (a TEXT, b INT, c BOOLEAN); update t1 set a = 'Smith'; delete from t1;

Inspection options

Option

Type

Default

Don't warn if there exists 'limit' clause

Checkbox

true

Don't warn if there exist self-references in the query (i.e., set id = id + 1)

Checkbox

true

Don't warn if there exists 'join' clause with condition

Checkbox

true

Don't warn if statement is applied to temporary table

Checkbox

true

Inspection Details

Available in:

AppCode 2023.3, CLion 2023.3, DataGrip 2023.3, DataSpell 2023.3, GoLand 2023.3, IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, JetBrains Rider 2023.1, PhpStorm 2023.3, PyCharm 2023.3, Qodana for .NET 2023.1, Qodana for JVM 2023.3, Qodana for PHP 2023.3, Qodana for Ruby 2023.3, RubyMine 2023.3

Plugin:

Database Tools and SQL, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023