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Delete records that contain a certain string
Posted by: Craig McKee
Date: June 24, 2019 03:52AM

I'm completely new to this so please forgive me if this is the wrong place or a stupid question.

How I can delete all entries in a table that contain yesterdays date?

For example, an entry might read "Event 15 - 03-Jul-19 @ 18:45. K10/25B - Princethorpe" so on the 4th July I would like to delete it. I'm happy scheduling the in MyPHPAdmin but I need the SQL command.

This is in the database as one entire string though, not as a date field or anything so I need to be able to format yesterday's date as dd-mmm-yy and see if it is in the string. If it is, delete the record, if not, leave it.

I hope that makes sense.

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