# Progress database data purge

**URL:** <https://www.epiusers.help/t/progress-database-data-purge/67008>\
**Category:** Vista/Vantage 8\
**Tags:** progress\
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/progress-database-data-purge/67008 "2020-05-07T14:06:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chriscoogan](https://www.epiusers.help/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@chriscoogan](https://www.epiusers.help/u/chriscoogan)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/progress-database-data-purge/67008/1 "2020-05-07T14:06:59Z")

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Hello, I need to delete data directly from a Progress database. I am looking to truncate the change logs. Any thoughts?  
Thanks  
Chris

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Woods](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/jason_woods/32/80101_2.png) [@Jason\_Woods](https://www.epiusers.help/u/Jason_Woods)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/progress-database-data-purge/67008/2 "2020-05-07T18:53:38Z")

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I don;t have a Vantage System easily available, but there may have been a Purge and Summarize feature then.  
Here is a screenshot from E10…

 ![image](https://epiusers.help/uploads/default/original/3X/7/b/7bb2d7bca159c2c5a6609201c94730ad9b60e284.png)

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**Author:** ![chriscoogan](https://www.epiusers.help/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@chriscoogan](https://www.epiusers.help/u/chriscoogan)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/progress-database-data-purge/67008/3 "2020-05-07T21:11:45Z")

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Hi Jason,  
There is that option but it takes forever! One month was 1.5 million records and took 2 days to purge. I was hoping for a quicker solution.  
Chris

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Woods](https://www.epiusers.help/user_avatar/www.epiusers.help/jason_woods/32/80101_2.png) [@Jason\_Woods](https://www.epiusers.help/u/Jason_Woods)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.epiusers.help/t/progress-database-data-purge/67008/4 "2020-05-07T21:41:01Z")

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If you are getting that many records, have you thought about reducing what you log?