Information Store data deletion About this guidei2 Analyze supports several different mechanisms for creating records in the Information Store. It also supports different mechanisms for deleting them. This document describes how to delete records individually, selectively, or in bulk; and it describes the circumstances in which each approach is possible or desirable.OverviewTo comply with data protection regulations, storage restrictions, or other requirements, you might need to delete data from the Information Store. i2 Analyze provides mechanisms for doing so. The mechanism that you choose depends on how the records were created in the Information Store and your reason for deleting them.Deleting shared recordsAnalyst's Notebook Premium enables authorized users to create and delete records in the Information Store. However, even authorized users can delete only records that they or their colleagues create, and the operation is not immediately permanent. To delete records completely, you must interact with the Information Store database.Deleting records by ruleIf you need to delete records from the Information Store for policy reasons, rather than to reflect delete operations that happened elsewhere, you can use the deletion-by-rule mechanism. You can directly delete any records that you select by specifying their property values and metadata.Parent topic: Ingesting data into the Information Store