---
title: "Delete a table and its rows"
description: "Drop the table and all its rows; remove links to it from other tables and references to it in rules."
canonical: "https://grid82.com/docs/builder-api/tables/delete"
updated: "2026-11-13"
---

# Delete a table and its rows

`DELETE https://studio.grid82.app/v1/apps/{appId}/tables/{tableId}`

Drop the table and all its rows; remove links to it from other tables and references to it in rules.

Rows, links, and grants go to the app's trash for 30 days; `trash.restore` can restore the table with the same IDs. Send its current name as `confirm`. Returns 409 with readers in `details.impact` until you send `acknowledge=true`.

Requires the `schema:write` scope. Operation `tables.delete`. MCP tool `tables_delete`. CLI: `grid82 tables delete` (`npx grid82`).

## Path parameters

| Name      | Type   | Required | Description |
| --------- | ------ | -------- | ----------- |
| `appId`   | string | yes      |             |
| `tableId` | string | yes      |             |

## Query parameters

| Name          | Type    | Required | Description           |
| ------------- | ------- | -------- | --------------------- |
| `confirm`     | string  | no       | Up to 200 characters. |
| `acknowledge` | boolean | no       |                       |

## Headers

| Name              | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ----------------- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `Idempotency-Key` | string | no       | Any unique string. Sending the same key with the same request again returns the first response (marked `Idempotency-Replayed: true`) instead of running it twice. Reusing it for a different request is refused with 409. Kept for 24 hours. Up to 255 characters. |

**Authorizations**

- `Authorization` (bearer, in header, required)

## Response

**200**: Success

- `data` (`object`, required)
- `data.id` (`string`, required)

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "<string>"
  }
}
```

**4XX**: Refused

- `error` (`object`, required)
- `error.code` (`enum<string>`, required, one of: `not_found, forbidden, unauthenticated, validation_failed, conflict, rate_limited, payment_required, not_implemented, internal`)
- `error.message` (`string`, required)
- `error.details` (`Record<string, unknown>`)

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "<string>",
    "details": {}
  }
}
```

**Example request**

```bash
curl --request DELETE \
  --url 'https://studio.grid82.app/v1/apps/<appId>/tables/<tableId>' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```