Remove data from database automatically at particular amount of time

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I am developing an application in which i have table with 3 columns (id, name and date).

Now in date field I am storing date the user joined, but now i want to delete the user records which are over 4 days old, from the original date of joining.

I want something like this...
there is entry on date field 4/6/2013
Now after 4 days i.e. on 8/6/2013 all the records having 4/6/2013 date will be removed autometically... This should be done automatically.. Lets say when the server time gets 12:00AM it should be happen automatically... How can i achieve this?
Please help me out..?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 5-Apr-13 7:10am

Naikniket

Updated 5-Apr-13 16:02pm

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[no name] 5-Apr-13 15:32pm

You need an SQL Job Agent, scheduled task or a service.

jkirkerx 5-Apr-13 18:02pm

I improved your question, but after that, the question was still sort of unclear to me.

You want to delete the records after 4 days, or erase the date time value after 4 days?

You can do that when a user joins, when you add the record, run a sql statement that does cleanup after the insert record.

Naikniket 5-Apr-13 22:00pm

I want something like this...
there is entry on date field 4/6/2013
Now after 4 days i.e. on 8/6/2013 all the records having 4/6/2013 date will be removed autometically... This should be done automatically.. Lets say when the server time gets 12:00AM it should be happen automatically...

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Anurag Sinha V · Answer 1 · 2013-04-05T07:27:00

Solution 1

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delete from dbo.Table where Date_Column<GETDATE()-4

try it.it should work..

-Anurag

Posted 5-Apr-13 7:27am

Anurag Sinha V

Updated 5-Apr-13 7:28am

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Naikniket 5-Apr-13 22:01pm

I want something like this...
there is entry on date field 4/6/2013
Now after 4 days i.e. on 8/6/2013 all the records having 4/6/2013 date will be removed autometically... This should be done automatically.. Lets say when the server time gets 12:00AM it should be happen automatically...

Anurag Sinha V 6-Apr-13 7:58am

Ok...I see...you can put the above delete statement in a job and schedule the job to run daily at whatever time you want...You can find jobs in SQL server agent..right click it and you can see some default jobs..create a new one and try