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# Deleting Data

|Goal|Best Practice|
|----|-------------|
|Deleting large volumes of data|When deleting large volumes of data, a process that involves deleting one million or more records, use the hard delete option of the Bulk API or Bulk API 2.0 . Deleting large volumes of data might take significant time due to the complexity of the deletion process. (See [Deleting Data](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/salesforce-large-data-volumes-bp/guide/ldv-deployments-best-practices-deleting-data.md).)|
|Making the data deletion process more efficient|When deleting records that have many children, delete the children first.|