# SQL Server Deleting data

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sql-server-deleting-data/116539>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** scripting, perspective\
**Created:** [July 27, 2026, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sql-server-deleting-data/116539 "2026-07-27T11:40:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jack.hammons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jack.hammons](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jack.hammons)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sql-server-deleting-data/116539/1 "2026-07-27T11:40:55Z")

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How do I go about deleting rows or columns that I don't want anymore. being I renamed some of them and it created new columns and the old ones still pull up when I call for the data base

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sql-server-deleting-data/116539/2 "2026-07-27T11:57:57Z")

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This is not specific to ignition, I would recommend going through some basic SQL lessons

> **[W3Schools.com](https://www.w3schools.com/sql/)**
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> W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

for your case

> **[W3Schools.com](https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_alter.asp)**
>
> W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

If you're not talking about the columns being in the db table you will have to provide more detail

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**Author:** ![jack.hammons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jack.hammons](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jack.hammons)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sql-server-deleting-data/116539/3 "2026-07-27T17:26:13Z")

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Thanks