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DeleteDE()

DeleteDE is an AMPscript function in the data extensions category.

Syntax

DeleteDE(de, numKeys, keyCol, keyVal, ...)

Example

%%[ DeleteDE("Loyalty", 1, "EmailAddress", "bob@example.com") ]%%
Rows after delete: %%=DataExtensionRowCount("Loyalty")=%%
Rendered output
Rows after delete: 1

Output produced by AmpSend's AMPscript engine (validated against Salesforce's own test corpus) - not a hand-written result.

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Official Salesforce documentation

DeleteDE in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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LookupLookupRowsLookupRowsCSLookupOrderedRowsLookupOrderedRowsCSDataExtensionRowCountRowCountRowFieldInsertDEInsertDataUpdateDEUpdateDataUpsertDEUpsertDataDeleteData