Best practices to delete old content

What is the best way to delete old content? The amount of data (documents and recordings) is growing steadily and our server is running out of disc space. According to our policy documents and recordings older than 6 months can be removed.
What is the best way to do this (via API) and what else do we have to consider? Any recommendations?
Thanks & best regards,

Remove the application from your applications folder.
Then navigate to the ~/Library/Application Support folder and delete everything in there associated with the specific program.
Also navigate to the /Library/Application Support folder and delete the files specific to the program.
~/Library/Preferences to delete the preferences you have for that specific application for when/if you reinstall it.
That's basically the most thorough way to remove something from your mac.

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What is the best practice of deleting large amount of records?

hi,
I need your suggestions on best practice of deleting large amount of records of SQL Azure regularly.
Scenario:
I have a SQL Azure database (P1) to which I insert data every day, to prevent the database size grow too fast, I need a way to remove all the records which is older than 3 days every day.
For on-premise SQL server, I can use SQL Server Agent/job, but, since SQL Azure does not support SQL Job yet, I have to use a Web job which scheduled to run every day to delete all old records.
To prevent the table locking when deleting too large amount of records, in my automation or web job code, I limit the amount of deleted records to
5000 and batch delete count to 1000 each time when calling the deleting records stored procedure:
1. Get total amount of old records (older then 3 days)
2. Get the total iterations: iteration = (total count/5000)
3. Call SP in a loop:
for(int i=0;i<iterations;i++)
   Exec PurgeRecords @BatchCount=1000, @MaxCount=5000
And the stored procedure is something like this:
BEGIN
INSERT INTO @table
SELECT TOP (@MaxCount) [RecordId] FROM [MyTable] WHERE [CreateTime] < DATEADD(DAY, -3, GETDATE())
END
DECLARE @RowsDeleted INTEGER
SET @RowsDeleted = 1
WHILE(@RowsDeleted > 0)
BEGIN
  WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:01'
  DELETE TOP (@BatchCount) FROM [MyTable] WHERE [RecordId] IN (SELECT [RecordId] FROM @table)
  SET @RowsDeleted = @@ROWCOUNT
END
It basically works, but the performance is not good. One example is, it took around 11 hours to delete around 1.7 million records, really too long time...
Following is the web job log for deleting around 1.7 million records:
[01/12/2015 16:06:19 > 2f578e: INFO] Start getting the total counts which is older than 3 days
[01/12/2015 16:06:25 > 2f578e: INFO] End getting the total counts to be deleted, total count:
1721586
[01/12/2015 16:06:25 > 2f578e: INFO] Max delete count per iteration: 5000, Batch delete count
1000, Total iterations: 345
[01/12/2015 16:06:25 > 2f578e: INFO] Start deleting in iteration 1
[01/12/2015 16:09:50 > 2f578e: INFO] Successfully finished deleting in iteration 1. Elapsed time:
00:03:25.2410404
[01/12/2015 16:09:50 > 2f578e: INFO] Start deleting in iteration 2
[01/12/2015 16:13:07 > 2f578e: INFO] Successfully finished deleting in iteration 2. Elapsed time:
00:03:16.5033831
[01/12/2015 16:13:07 > 2f578e: INFO] Start deleting in iteration 3
[01/12/2015 16:16:41 > 2f578e: INFO] Successfully finished deleting in iteration 3. Elapsed time:
00:03:336439434
Per the log, SQL azure takes more than 3 mins to delete 5000 records in each iteration, and the total time is around
11 hours.
Any suggestion to improve the deleting records performance?

This is one approach:
Assume:
1. There is an index on 'createtime'
2. Peak time insert (avgN) is N times more than average (avg). e.g. supposed if average per hour is 10,000 and peak time per hour is 5 times more, that gives 50,000. This doesn't have to be precise.
3. Desirable maximum record to be deleted per batch is 5,000, don't have to be exact.
Steps:
1. Find count of records more than 3 days old (TotalN), say 1,000,000.
2. Divide TotalN (1,000,000) with 5,000 gives the number of deleted batches (200) if insert is very even. But since it is not even and maximum inserts can be 5 times more per period, set number of deleted batches should be 200 * 5 = 1,000.
3. Divide 3 days (4,320 minutes) with 1,000 gives 4.32 minutes.
4. Create a delete statement and a loop that deletes record with creation day < today - (3 days ago - 3.32 * I minutes). (I is the number of iterations from 1 to 1,000)
In this way the number of records deleted in each batch is not even and not known but should mostly within 5,000 and even you run a lot more batches but each batch will be very fast.
Frank

Is there a best practice for deleting a published report?

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Hi,
You can refer the SRND guide. As per document (page -292)
you can configured -You can add a maximum of 50 agents per team.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cust_contact/contact_center/ipcc_enterprise/ippcenterprise9_0_1/design/guide/UCCE_BK_S06086EC_00_srnd-9-0-1.pdf
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Best practice when deleting from different table simultainiously

Greetings people,
I have two tables joined with a foreign key contrraint. They are written at the same time to keep the constraint happy but I don't know the best way of deleting them as far as rowsets and datamodels are concerned. Are there "gotchas" like do I delete the row in the foreign key table first?
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Without knowing many details about your specifics... I can suggest a few alternatives -
You can definitely build coordinating the deletes into your application - you can automatically delete any FK related entries prior to deleting the master, or, refuse to delete the master until the user goes and explicitly deletes the children... just depends on how you want to manage it.
Also in many databases you can build the cascading delete rules into your database tables themselves.... so that when you delete the master the deletes automatically cascade. I think this is something you typically declare when creating the FK constrataint (delete cascade and update cascade rules).
hth,
v

Best practice for deletion of SAP standard configuration

Does anyone have any documentation related to deletion of standard SAP configuration? My client is requesting deletion of all the standard delivered company codes and I believe it is best practice to never delete them. I am looking for supporting documentation that supports this.

Rhonda,
I have never seen a system where the standard delivered company codes did not exist, so I can't say what the implications of deletion are. I suppose it is possible to do....
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Bad bind variable & best practice for delete

I am working with three tables and very new to SQL. I need to create a procedure that will accept an ID and go through two sub tables and delete child records. Item is the main table. I am passing in the ID into the procedure and I want to use it as below. I keep getting a bad bind variable error message. I have verified that the table is setup as a number and my procedure accepts a number. I also want someone to review this from best practice as I am new to procedures.
PROCEDURE DeleteItem (p_ItemID IN NUMBER, p_RowsAffected OUT number)
IS
p_RowsAffected NUMBER;
-- select the itemdetail for the analysis
CURSOR c_itemdetail
IS
SELECT
itemdetailid
FROM itemDETAIL
WHERE itemid = :p_ItemID;
BEGIN
-- loop through each itemdetail and delete the itemdetailoutlay
FOR r_itemdetail IN c_itemdetail
LOOP
BEGIN
DELETE FROM ITEMDETAILOUTLAY
WHERE itemdetailid = r_itemdetail.itemdetailid;
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BEGIN
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WHERE itemid = :p_ItemID;
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BEGIN
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WHERE itemdid = :p_ItemID;
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Hi,
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I don't think you mean to use bind variables anywhere, so don't use colons before any variable names. You were doing this correctly with p_RowsAffected; do the same thing with p_ItemID.
Try this:PROCEDURE DeleteItem (p_ItemID IN NUMBER, p_RowsAffected OUT number)
IS
-- p_RowsAffected NUMBER;     -- Don't name local variables the same as arguments
-- select the itemdetail for the analysis
CURSOR c_itemdetail
IS
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itemdetailid
FROM itemDETAIL
WHERE itemid = p_ItemID;     -- No : before p_ItemID
BEGIN
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FOR r_itemdetail IN c_itemdetail
LOOP
BEGIN
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WHERE itemdetailid = r_itemdetail.itemdetailid;
COMMIT;
END;
END LOOP;
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BEGIN
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WHERE itemid = p_ItemID;     -- No : before p_ItemID
COMMIT;
END;
-- delete the main item
BEGIN
DELETE FROM ITEM
WHERE itemdid = p_ItemID;     -- No : before p_ItemID
COMMIT;
p_RowsAffected := SQL%ROWCOUNT;
END;
END DeleteItem;
The most important "best practice" with PL/SQL is to avoid doing it whenever possible.
If SQL offers a way o do the same thing, it's usally best not to code anything in PL/SQL.
Have you considered foreign key constraints, with "ON DELETE CASCADE"? That way, you could simply "DELETE FROM item", and all the dependent rows in the other tables would automatically be deleted.   You wouldn't need to remember to call a procedure like this; in fact, you would have no need for a procedure like this.
Given that you do have such a procedure:
You're doing row-by-row processing, which some mad wags like to call "slow-by-slow" processing.
For example, iYou're xplicitly finding each ItemDetailID separately, and deleting each one separately, like this:... CURSOR c_itemdetail
IS
SELECT
itemdetailid
FROM itemDETAIL
WHERE itemid = p_ItemID;
-- loop through each itemdetail and delete the itemdetailoutlay
FOR r_itemdetail IN c_itemdetail
LOOP
BEGIN
DELETE FROM ITEMDETAILOUTLAY
WHERE itemdetailid = r_itemdetail.itemdetailid;
COMMIT;
END;
END LOOP;
It's more efficient for the system (and less coding for you) if you let SQL handle as much as possible, so do this instead...     DELETE FROM ItemDetailOutlay
     WHERE ItemDetailID IN
          ( SELECT itemdetailid
          FROM     itemDETAIL
          WHERE     itemid     = p_ItemID
Do you really want to COMMIT 3 times? 0 or 1 times might be better.
What happens if there is some kind of error, say, after you've delete rows form ItemDetailOutlay and ItemDetail, but before you've delete from Item? Wouldn't you want the entire transaction to fail, and leave all three tables in a consistent state? If so, either have the calling procedure COMMIT, or have a single COMMIT at the end of DelteItem.
Edited by: Frank Kulash on May 6, 2010 2:25 PM

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Best practice for deleting multiple rows from a table , using creator

Hi
Thank you for reading my post.
what is best practive for deleting multiple rows from a table using rowSet ?
for example how i can execute something like
delete from table1 where field1= ? and field2 =?
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Thanks,
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