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This is article 4 of 6 on linked lists in MySQL:

• Sorting lists
• Sorting lists: moving items
• Sorting lists: adding items
• Sorting lists: deleting items
• Sorting lists: moving blocks
• Sorting lists: deleting blocks

In this aticle I’ll describe deleting an item from a linked list.

This operation is probably the most simple, as no constraints are violated here.

I’ll cover it, first, just to be complete and, second, to illustrate some tricks I used before in more detail.
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