The Scenario
You're a data analyst. You just finished a deduplication audit on the 'Contacts' table in NocoDB — three days of cross-referencing, comparing email domains, and identifying which records are safe to remove. The result is a Google Sheet 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 'Contacts' view.
- Click the row, find the delete option, confirm the deletion.
- Return to the sheet, 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 Google Sheet. 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.
Column A of this sheet has NocoDB row IDs — delete all of them from the 'Contacts' table in my NocoDB base
What You Get
- Every row ID in column A 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 'Contacts' table is cleaned without a single manual deletion.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some IDs in column A 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 'Contacts' 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 'Contacts' 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 sheet 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 a Google Sheet for Documentation and the NocoDB integration overview.