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Delete Partition

delete

/essbase/rest/v1/applications/{applicationName}/databases/{databaseName}/partitions

Deletes a partition based on the query parameters.

1. To delete a transparent or replicated partition, the partition type, source server, source application, and source database are required.
2. To delete a federated partition, the partition type, Datasource name, and measures dimension name are required.

Request

Path Parameters

• applicationName: string

  Application name.

• databaseName: string

  Database name.

Query Parameters

• applicationLevelDatasource(optional): boolean

  Specify whether the Datasource is defined at the application level.

• applicationName(optional): string

  Partition source application name.

• databaseName(optional): string

  Partition source database name.

• datasourceName(optional): string

  Datasource name.

• measuresDimensionName(optional): string

  Pivot dimension name. Can be Measures dimension, but does not have to be.

• serverName(optional): string

  Partition source server name.

• type: string

  Partition type.

  Allowed Values: [ "TRANSPARENT", "REPLICATED", "FEDERATED", "LAZY_TRANSPARENT" ]

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Response

Supported Media Types

• application/json
• application/xml

204 Response

OK

Partition deleted successfully.

400 Response

Bad Request

Failed to delete partition.

500 Response

Internal Server Error.

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Examples

The following example shows how to delete a partition on the current target cube.

This example uses cURL to access the REST API from a Windows shell script. The calling user's ID and password are variables whose values are set in properties.bat.

Script with cURL Command to Delete a Transparent Partition

In the following REST API example, the target cube, P_Market.Demo, is based on the Essbase gallery sample Demo.Basic. The Market dimension of P_Market.Demo is comprised of transparent partitions to various source cubes (one for each individual market region: Boston, Dallas, Chicago, and 7 other cities).

call properties.bat

curl -X DELETE "https://myserver.example.com/essbase/rest/v1/applications/P_Market/databases/Demo/partitions?type=TRANSPARENT&serverName=https%3A%2F%2Fmyserver.example.com%2Fessbase%2Fagent&applicationName=P_Boston&databaseName=Demo"
     -H  "accept: application/json"
     -u %User%:%Password%

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