How to exclude a specific row from a table in MySQL?

Use <> i.e. not equal in MySQL to exclude a specific row from a table. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable    -> (    -> Id int,    -> FirstName varchar(100)    -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.58 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable values(1,'John'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(2,'Chris'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.15 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(3,'Robert'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.26 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(4,'David'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

Output

This will produce the following output −

+------+-----------+ | Id   | FirstName | +------+-----------+ |    1 | John      | |    2 | Chris     | |    3 | Robert    | |    4 | David     | +------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Here is the query to exclude a specific row from the table −

mysql> select Id,FirstName from DemoTable where Id <> 2;

Ouptut

This will produce the following output −

+------+-----------+ | Id   | FirstName | +------+-----------+ | 1 | John | | 3 | Robert | | 4 | David | +------+-----------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)