Drop Regions

Learn how to delete a region that you have created in a Multi-Region Oracle NoSQL Database.

Even though you can drop a region directly in a multi-region environment, it is recommended that you isolate the region to be dropped from other participating regions before dropping it. To learn more about isolating a region, see

To drop a region, use the DROP REGION DDL statement. For example:

/* Drop the region named us_east */
DROP REGION us_east;

To drop a region from your application, you use the KVStore class to pass the DDL statement to the executeSync method. For example to drop the us_east region:

KVStore.executeSync(“DROP REGION us_east”);