Hey Rico, You got it. Just write yourself a cleanup task. You could look into cron jobs and the task queue to fire the cleanup process.
About 90% of my non app engine time is spent developing and optimizing RDB queries and procedures; when working in app engine it is (often) best to not think in terms of RDB concepts. Just think in terms of "programming," if that makes sense. :) Robert On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 06:30, Rico Suave <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for your answer; > So if I understand correctly, this is what you do when writing an app > that needs some periodical database maintenance; > > Say for example we have an e-commerce store and the shoppingcarts are > stored in BigTable. What I'd need to do cleaning up an abandoned > shoppingcart, is write a planned script (or execute on some trigger) > that will look for any shoppingcarts where the user has left the site, > say, more than a day ago and delete the corresponding objects. That's > do-able. > > It's probably because coming from RDBMS development I'm used spending > quite some time in a database management tool to check if data is > correctly inserted/deleted/updated. That will take some getting used > to :) > > Thanks again. > > Erik > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
