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What is the equivalent of a “Certificate of Destruction” when using a cloud-hosted database?

We have a Rails application hosted by Heroku and using an Heroku Postgres database. Some of the information we store is considered to be sensitive by our users, and we've been asked if we can provide ...
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mysql query - how to delete duplicates based on highest int?

I'm running a reverse auction website and I need to delete the duplicate bids and keep only the highest amount . lastPriceBid_rounded is the "amount". The duplicate is defined by the userId. ...
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Mysql setting a record as deleted or archive

Is there any way to omit some records in mysql select statement and not deleting them? We can easily add a column for example deleted and set it to 1 for deleted ones and keep them but the problem is ...
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Delete word, its meanings, its meaning's example sentences from DB

I have three tables as below (simplified for demonstration): words ===== integer id text word meanings ======== integer id integer word_id text meaning examples ======== integer id integer ...
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How to delete large amount of data from a sql table?

We ran out of disk space and we have a table with about 10million records. We'd like to delete the old records which are about 2million. What are the impact of just deleting these using a simple ...
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Tombstone Table vs Deleted Flag in database syncronization & soft-delete scenarios

I need to keep track of deleted items for client synchronization needs. In general, is it better to add a tombstone table and a trigger that tracks when a row was deleted from the server database - ...
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Delete rows in a table that has multiple FKs

I need to delete all the rows in the ContentData table that have the word 'DV95' in the htmldata column. Here is what I am using: BEGIN TRANSACTION DELETE Contentdata FROM Contentlinks INNER JOIN ...
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Deleting all duplicates

I am trying to delete all the duplicates but keeping single record only (shorter id). Following query deletes duplicates but take lot of iterations to delete all copies and keeping original ones. ...
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Methods of speeding up a huge DELETE FROM <table> with no clauses

Using SQL Server 2005. I am performing a huge DELETE FROM with no where clauses. It's basically equivalent to a TRUNCATE TABLE statement - except I'm not allowed to use TRUNCATE. The problem is ...