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Delete tag data

Delete tag data

Owned by Ryan Park (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 09, 2021 by Grey Shim

Tag data deletion constraints

Machbase only supports deletion of data before a specific time.

Unsupported tag data deletion condition

  • Delete specific tag data

  • Delete data for a specific time range

  • Delete specific time range data for a specific tag

Supported tag data deletion condition

  • Delete all tags before a specific time


Index

DELETE

Syntax

DELETE FROM TAG BEFORE TO_DATE('Time-string');

In the above example, if you specify the time of the BEFORE statement, all tags before that time are deleted.

If the BEFORE clause is not specified, all data in the tag table is deleted.

Example of some data deletion

# Original Data
Mach> select * from tag;
NAME TIME VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TAG_0001 2018-01-01 01:00:00 000:000:000 1
TAG_0001 2018-01-02 02:00:00 000:000:000 2
TAG_0001 2018-01-03 03:00:00 000:000:000 3
TAG_0001 2018-01-04 04:00:00 000:000:000 4
TAG_0001 2018-01-05 05:00:00 000:000:000 5
TAG_0001 2018-01-06 06:00:00 000:000:000 6
TAG_0001 2018-01-07 07:00:00 000:000:000 7
TAG_0001 2018-01-08 08:00:00 000:000:000 8
TAG_0001 2018-01-09 09:00:00 000:000:000 9
TAG_0001 2018-01-10 10:00:00 000:000:000 10
TAG_0002 2018-02-01 01:00:00 000:000:000 11
TAG_0002 2018-02-02 02:00:00 000:000:000 12
TAG_0002 2018-02-03 03:00:00 000:000:000 13
TAG_0002 2018-02-04 04:00:00 000:000:000 14
TAG_0002 2018-02-05 05:00:00 000:000:000 15
TAG_0002 2018-02-06 06:00:00 000:000:000 16
TAG_0002 2018-02-07 07:00:00 000:000:000 17
TAG_0002 2018-02-08 08:00:00 000:000:000 18
TAG_0002 2018-02-09 09:00:00 000:000:000 19
TAG_0002 2018-02-10 10:00:00 000:000:000 20
[20] row(s) selected.

Mach> delete from tag before to_date('2018-02-01');
10 row(s) deleted.

Mach> select * from tag;
NAME TIME VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TAG_0002 2018-02-01 01:00:00 000:000:000 11
TAG_0002 2018-02-02 02:00:00 000:000:000 12
TAG_0002 2018-02-03 03:00:00 000:000:000 13
TAG_0002 2018-02-04 04:00:00 000:000:000 14
TAG_0002 2018-02-05 05:00:00 000:000:000 15
TAG_0002 2018-02-06 06:00:00 000:000:000 16
TAG_0002 2018-02-07 07:00:00 000:000:000 17
TAG_0002 2018-02-08 08:00:00 000:000:000 18
TAG_0002 2018-02-09 09:00:00 000:000:000 19
TAG_0002 2018-02-10 10:00:00 000:000:000 20
[10] row(s) selected.


Example of deleting all data

Mach> delete from tag;
10 row(s) deleted.

Mach> select * from tag;
NAME TIME VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0] row(s) selected.

All of tag data were deleted.

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