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DeleteWorkGroup - Amazon Athena

DeleteWorkGroup

Deletes the workgroup with the specified name. The primary workgroup cannot be deleted.

Request Syntax

{ "RecursiveDeleteOption": boolean, "WorkGroup": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

RecursiveDeleteOption

The option to delete the workgroup and its contents even if the workgroup contains any named queries, query executions, or notebooks.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

WorkGroup

The unique name of the workgroup to delete.

Type: String

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,128}

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalServerException

Indicates a platform issue, which may be due to a transient condition or outage.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

Indicates that something is wrong with the input to the request. For example, a required parameter may be missing or out of range.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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