Want to purge 3 months old data from database

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I want to purge 3 months old data from database but problem is i don't have date column in that table.

Is it possible by any means. Please help me out

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Tried searching for this but not finding any link

Posted 22-Oct-18 20:24pm

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Updated 22-Oct-18 21:22pm

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Mehdi Gholam 23-Oct-18 3:08am

Link it to other tables that have a date (which make sense) or guess.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2018-10-22T21:23:00

If you don't have a date column, then you can;t tell when the data was inserted - so you can't delete it.

Your only real solution is to add an InsertDate column to your table (you can give it a default value of GETDATE() if necessary) and you can then purge old rows.
But without a column to tell you which ones are outdated, you can't reliably delete anything!