Unable to delete a record in Mysql

Let’s say I have table name Company with two columns cname, location.

In the table I am having two records with

cname |location

Asmetric |Dallas

Sophore |Washington

on this table when I perform a delete operation

delete company where cname='Sophore';

I am getting an error

Error 1064:You have an error in sql syntax check the manual that corresponds to your sql server version

whereas i had expected the complete record to be deleted , is the syntax wrong or it’s incomplete.Any suggestions welcome

Your error output is strange, it should be:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; 
check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version 
for the right syntax to use near 'where cname='Sophore'' at line 1

Which tell you exactly where the error is- you forgot the FROM clause on DELETE:

DELETE FROM company WHERE cname='Sophore';