# Remove Historical Tag Providers

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remove-historical-tag-providers/14426>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remove-historical-tag-providers/14426 "2017-05-30T21:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remove-historical-tag-providers/14426/7 "2019-08-02T15:08:37Z")

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The easy fix is just to create a non-working database connection with the same name as the one you want to delete, and then delete that new database connection. That should automatically remove the history provider as well.

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