mysql delete under safe mode

Question

I have a table instructor and I want to delete the records that have salary in a range An intuitive way is like this:

delete from instructor where salary be         


        

Answer 1

You can trick MySQL into thinking you are actually specifying a primary key column. This allows you to "override" safe mode.

Assuming you have a table with an auto-incrementing numeric primary key, you could do the following:

DELETE FROM tbl WHERE id <> 0