Method: projects.instances.databases.dropDatabase

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
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Drops (aka deletes) a Cloud Spanner database. Completed backups for the database will be retained according to their expireTime. Note: Cloud Spanner might continue to accept requests for a few seconds after the database has been deleted.

HTTP request

Choose a location:

global europe-west8 me-central2 us-central1 us-central2 us-east1 us-east4 us-east5 us-south1 us-west1 us-west2 us-west3 us-west4 us-west8 us-east7

DELETE https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1/{database=projects/*/instances/*/databases/*}

The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
database	string Required. The database to be dropped. Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource database: spanner.databases.drop

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.admin
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.