The Scenario
You're a data analyst. You just finished a deduplication audit on the 'Leads' table in NocoDB — three days of cross-referencing, comparing email domains, and identifying which records are safe to remove. The result is an Excel workbook with 300 row IDs in column A. Each one is a confirmed duplicate. Someone from engineering said they'd write a script to handle the delete. That was two weeks ago.
The bad version:
- Open the NocoDB UI, search for the first row ID in the 'Leads' view.
- Click the row, find the delete option, confirm the deletion.
- Return to the workbook, look up the next ID, go back to NocoDB.
- Repeat 300 times — while NocoDB occasionally requires you to scroll to find a record the search doesn't surface cleanly.
The audit is done. The work is done. The only thing standing between you and a clean dataset is a repetitive action that scales poorly with human attention.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the IDs in your column and through its built-in NocoDB integration it can run the delete operation against each one, in bulk, from a single instruction.
A2:A300 in this Excel sheet contains NocoDB row IDs to delete — remove all of them from my 'Leads' table view
What You Get
- Every row ID in A2:A300 is submitted to NocoDB's delete endpoint.
- Successfully deleted IDs are confirmed — you can ask for a count or a status column.
- Any ID that returns an error (already deleted, not found, permission issue) is surfaced rather than silently skipped.
- The 'Leads' table is cleaned without a single manual deletion.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some IDs in the column are duplicates of each other and shouldn't be submitted twice
Column A has NocoDB row IDs for deletion — deduplicate the list first, then delete each unique ID from the 'Leads' table and write the final count of deleted records into cell C1
You want a confirmation column before anything is deleted
Column A has NocoDB row IDs flagged for deletion — first write 'PENDING' in column B next to each ID, then delete each row from the 'Leads' table and update column B to 'DELETED' or 'ERROR' based on the result
The IDs span two tables — 'Contacts' and 'Leads' — and column B specifies which table
Delete each row ID in column A from the NocoDB table specified in column B — 'Contacts' rows go to the Contacts table, 'Leads' rows go to the Leads table — write the result into column C
Full kill-chain: deduplicate the ID list, delete from both tables, count results, and flag errors
Column A has row IDs, column B has the target table name ('Contacts' or 'Leads') — deduplicate by ID first — delete each from the correct NocoDB table — write 'DELETED' or 'ERROR: [reason]' into column C — write total deleted count and total error count into cells E1 and E2
The audit work is already done. This prompt finishes the job.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook from your next deduplication audit, then ask it to run the NocoDB delete against every ID in your column. Related reading: Pull a NocoDB Table Schema Into an Excel workbook and the NocoDB integration overview.