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:description: The Delete transform deletes rows of data from a database. This transform is similar to the update family of transforms in that it takes one or more key fields to determine the rows to delete.

= image:transforms/icons/delete.svg[Delete transform Icon, role="image-doc-icon"] Delete

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== Description

The Delete transform deletes rows of data from a database.

This transform is similar to the update family of transforms in that it takes one or more key fields to determine the rows to delete.

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== Supported Engines
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!Hop Engine! image:check_mark.svg[Supported, 24]
!Spark! image:question_mark.svg[Maybe Supported, 24]
!Flink! image:question_mark.svg[Maybe Supported, 24]
!Dataflow! image:question_mark.svg[Maybe Supported, 24]
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image::transforms/delete/delete.png[]

== Options

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|Option|Description
|Transform name|Name of the transform.
This name has to be unique in a single pipeline.
|Connection|The database connection to which data is written
|Target schema|The name of the Schema for the table to which data is written.
This is important for data sources that allow for table names with periods in them.
|Target table|Name of the table in which you want to do the insert or update.
|Commit size|The number of rows to change (insert / update) before running a commit.
|The keys(s) to look up the value(s)|Specify fields to delete the corresponding rows for
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