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Delete XML data

PJ_SQL

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August 18, 2015 at 7:20 am

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I have a table which has XML data, so it takes lot of time to delete it.
Here's the condition:
Archive all data older than 2 months and delete it.
What would be the good approach for this?

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Arvind.patil SSC Veteran Points: 214 More actions · Answer 1

You can think of patitioning the table based on week/Month and drop the partition

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 2

PJ_SQL (8/18/2015)
I have a table which has XML data, so it takes lot of time to delete it.
Here's the condition:
Archive all data older than 2 months and delete it.
What would be the good approach for this?

Heh... stop storing XML in tables? 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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AlexSQLForums SSChampion Points: 14277 More actions · Answer 3

Try reading these sqlservercentral links:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basics/xmlsimplified/1898/[/url]

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basics/3117/[/url]

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