delete records from the very heavy table

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I need to delete records from the table which contains more than 24 million records. I need to delete them based on the created date time field. I used delete_record and there is an index on the filed "created date time" but anyway it takes too much time. I checked then in SQL management studio that it doesn't fall to record level deleting row by row. It is still delete_from command on the SQL server and doesn't turn into while select{delete}is there any chance to somehow delete records using order by and only first 10 thousand using AX?

Or I need to write direct SQL statement?

something like this

WITH MyCTE AS (
    SELECT TOP (10) * 
    FROM SalesOrderDetail
    ORDER BY SalesOrderID DESC)
DELETE FROM MyCTE;

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Sergei Minozhenko 23,095 on at

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Hi Azat,

If it's a one-time operation, it's fine to do it directly in SQL with CTE statement.

In x you can try to implement a day by day while loop and delete only one day per delete_from statement, it will decrease transaction time per delete statement, but it will not perform faster.

TransDate deleteToDate = ...; select minof(CreatedDateTime) from salesOrderTable; TransDate startDate = salesOrderTable.CreatedDateTime 1; //Add one day while (startDate <= deleteToDate) { delete_from salesOrderTable where salesOrderTable.CreatedDateTime < startDate; startDate ; }

Another way is to use temp table to keep RecIds to be deleted and then use it as exist join table in the delete_from table statement. But if I remember correctly tempDB temp tables are not supported in AX2009

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dark_knight 1,199 on at

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thanks. I will do something out of two above.

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