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DeleteTable - Amazon Timestream

DeleteTable

Deletes a given Timestream table. This is an irreversible operation. After a Timestream database table is deleted, the time-series data stored in the table cannot be recovered.

Note

Due to the nature of distributed retries, the operation can return either success or a ResourceNotFoundException. Clients should consider them equivalent.

See code sample for details.

Request Syntax

{ "DatabaseName": "string", "TableName": "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.

DatabaseName

The name of the database where the Timestream database is to be deleted.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

TableName

The name of the Timestream table to be deleted.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 256.

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.

AccessDeniedException

You are not authorized to perform this action.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerException

Timestream was unable to fully process this request because of an internal server error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidEndpointException

The requested endpoint was not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The operation tried to access a nonexistent resource. The resource might not be specified correctly, or its status might not be ACTIVE.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ThrottlingException

Too many requests were made by a user and they exceeded the service quotas. The request was throttled.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

An invalid or malformed request.

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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