Question: I can't believe I can't seem to find this anywhere (without just forcing the entire SQL in). Docs talk about adding, searching, updating and removing an entity, but I just can't see how to do what this would be in pure SQL:

```
DELETE FROM table WHERE field = "test"

```

I'm guessing this just adds and updates, so I can't use this:

```
$product = new Product();

// etc.

$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
$em->persist($product);
$em->flush();

```

and I don't think the 'remove' option would do it either:

```
$em->remove($product);
$em->flush();

```

So, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer: 
Search for the entity and remove it.

```
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
$repository = $em->getRepository('MyBundle:Product');

/** @var $product Product */
$product = $repository->findOneBy(array('field' => 'test'));
$em->remove($product);
$em->flush();

```
You can create a DQL query like this :

```
$query = $repository->createQuery('DELETE FROM entity e WHERE e.id = :id');
$query->setParameter('id', $id);
$query->execute();

```