> Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to generate inserts based on > primary key numbers in an excel spreadsheet?
A quick thought: What about using a column of the spreadsheet to actually store the SELECT result and generate the INSERT statement (and I would probably do the DELETE too) corresponding to each row using the power of the spreadsheet to write the query once and have it for all the partitions with the proper values? The spreadsheet would then be your backup somehow. We are a bit far from any Cassandra advice, but that's my first thought on your problem, use the spreadsheet :). Another option is probably to SELECT these rows and INSERT them into some other Cassandra table (same cluster or not). Here you would have to code it I think (client app of any kind) This might not a good fit, but just in case, you might want to check at the 'COPY' statement: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21363046/how-to-select-data-from-a-table-and-insert-into-another-table I'm not too sure what suits you the best. C*heers, ----------------------- Alain Rodriguez - al...@thelastpickle.com France / Spain The Last Pickle - Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com Le mer. 24 oct. 2018 à 12:46, Philip Ó Condúin <philipocond...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi All, > > I have a problem that I'm trying to work out and can't find anything > online that may help me. > > I have been asked to delete 4K records from a Column Family that has a > total of 1.8 million rows. I have been given an excel spreadsheet with a > list of the 4K PRIMARY KEY numbers to be deleted. Great, the delete will > be easy anyway. > > But before I delete them I want to take a backup of what I'm deleting > before I do, so that if the customer comes along and says they got the > wrong numbers then I can quickly restore one or all of them. > I have been trying to figure out how I can generate inserts from a select > but it looks like this is not possible. > > I'm using centos and Cassandra 2.11 > > Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to generate inserts based on > primary key numbers in an excel spreadsheet? > > Kind Regards, > Phil > > >
