Tuesday 17 December 2019

Bulk delete records from an SQL Table in Apps Script

The following code combines Google Apps Script and SQL to bulk delete records in an existing SQL Table, from data in a Google Sheet. This naturally follows on from being able to bulk add data in this post.

Rather than getting all of the data from the Google Sheet, this time we are just going to use the Student No which provides a unique value for each record (as it is never repeated). Once we have these values in an array we can loop through each row and use them in our SQL query.

Our query specifies which Table we want to remove the record from and a where condition that has to be met (without this all records would be deleted leaving the Table empty). The where condition in this example is finding a corresponding Student No match.
var sql = "DELETE FROM students "
+ "WHERE StudentNo=" + studentNo;

Bulk delete records from an SQL Table in Apps Script

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