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SQL Server Forum / General / Other SQL Server Topics / February 2007

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SQL Help with purging old data

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The Man - 28 Feb 2007 16:55 GMT
Does anyone know how to purge old data in a MS SQL server 2000
database?
Erland Sommarskog - 28 Feb 2007 22:22 GMT
> Does anyone know how to purge old data in a MS SQL server 2000
> database?

I've answered this in another thread, but in just case someone see this:
to be able to delete old data, you need to be able to define what data
that counts as old, and this has to be done per table basis. This is not
something you can do generically. SQL Server does not know itself how
new or old some data is; that information would have to be in the data
itself.

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