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Verifying and dropping keyspaces for logger tables on Cassandra Cluster

Solved407 views25th April 2025CassandraCluster keyspaces logger table
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Jan-Klaas Kesteloot [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]1.13K 13th November 2024 0 Comments

On a DMS with Cassandra cluster, I want to keep my database lean & healthy.

When downgrading to a connector version without logger tables, how can I check if the keyspace  for these logger tables (sldmadb_elementdata_<dmaid>_<eid>_<tableid>) in Cassandra still exist?

Next, how can I drop that data and these keyspaces?

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 25th April 2025

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Dieter Degrande [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]417 Posted 13th November 2024 0 Comments

Hi Jan-Klaas,

Depending on what you wish to remove you have a few options, dropping the keyspace, dropping the table or truncating the table. Everything but truncating the table can be done through DevCenter. If you want to use raw queries however please see below on how to gather information and which queries you can execute. If connecting with DevCenter the keyspaces and tables are shown in the user interface.

If you just want to check if the tables and keyspaces exist, you can query the system_schema keyspaces table with the following query:
select keyspace_name from system_schema.keyspaces;

If you want to know the tables in that keyspace, normally there is only 1 in the format of elementdata_<dmaid>_<eid>_<tableid> and verify if a table exists in that keyspace:

select table_name from system_schema.tables where keyspace_name = '<keyspace_name>';

If you want to drop the entire keyspace you can use the drop keyspace query as documented here, this will drop the entire keyspace with all it's tables and data:
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cql-oss/3.3/cql/cql_reference/cqlDropKeyspace.html

If you want to drop a table, you can use the drop table query as documented here, this will drop the table but keep the keyspace:

https://docs.datastax.com/en/cql-oss/3.3/cql/cql_reference/cqlDropTable.html

If you want to keep the table and keyspace but just want to all remove data, you can use the truncate table query as documented here:

https://docs.datastax.com/en/cql-oss/3.x/cql/cql_reference/cqlTruncate.html

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 25th April 2025
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Matej Plakalovic [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]636 Posted 13th November 2024 0 Comments

Hi Jan-Klaas,

I did a quick test.

Three elements were created with a version that includes the logger table (Cisco Manager v5.1.7.25). Key spaces were created.

After that, the versions were reverted to the version without the logger table. The key spaces were not deleted.

Because of that, they were manually removed using the 'DROP KEYSPACE' cqlsh command.

It seems that the logger table key spaces were not dropped even when the elements were deleted, until recently RN40523...

In case there are a large number of logger table key spaces that need to be deleted, manually doing it is not ideal. I have written a bash script that can automate this process.

Matej Plakalovic [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 13th November 2024
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