Athena Delete rows

1. How do I delete a row in Athena?
2. Can we delete data in Athena?
3. How do I delete a file in Athena?
4. How do I delete multiple tables in Athena?

How do I delete a row in Athena?

You can leverage Athena to find out all the files that you want to delete and then delete them separately. There is a special variable "$path". To automate this, you can have iterator on Athena results and then get filename and delete them from S3.

Can we delete data in Athena?

In Normal practise using Athena we can insert or query data in the table, but the option to update and delete does not exist. With Apache Iceberg integration with Athena, the users can run CRUD operations and also do time-travel on data to see the changes before and after a timestamp of the data.

How do I delete a file in Athena?

To keep your Athena database as streamlined as possible, you should regularly delete documents that have no historical value. There are several ways to delete documents in Athena: You can delete a single open document by clicking the Delete button at the top of the document.

How do I delete multiple tables in Athena?

An alternative is to create the tables in a specific database. Dropping the database will then delete all the tables. CREATE DATABASE db1; CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE table1 ...; CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE table2 ...; DROP DATABASE db1 CASCADE; The DROP DATABASE command will delete the table1 and table2 tables.