> Source: https://wexa.ai/docs/data-tables/delete-column

# delete-column

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Delete a column from a Data Table, and its values in every row. Irreversible. Needs the `fabric:table.write` grant.

**Delete a column**

**Wexa MCP server**

```bash
curl -sS -X POST https://fabric.wexa.ai/mcp/$FABRIC_PROJECT_ID \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $FABRIC_API_KEY" \
  -H "Mcp-Session-Id: $MCP_SESSION_ID" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" -H "accept: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"delete-column","arguments":{"table_id":"6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f","column_id":"6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74"}}}'
```

```json
{
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": "{\"lifecycle_id\":\"qlc_000205\",\"result\":{\"deleted\":true,\"table_id\":\"6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f\",\"column_id\":\"6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74\"}}"
    }
  ],
  "isError": false
}
```

**REST API**

```bash
curl -sS https://fabric.wexa.ai/v1/delete-column \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $FABRIC_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"table_id":"6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f","column_id":"6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74"}'
```

```json
{
  "lifecycle_id": "qlc_000205",
  "result": {
    "deleted": true,
    "table_id": "6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f",
    "column_id": "6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74"
  }
}
```

**TypeScript SDK**

```ts
import { Fabric } from '@wexa-fabric/sdk'

const fabric = new Fabric()
const result = await fabric.deleteColumn({
  table_id: '6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f',
  column_id: '6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74'
})
```

```ts
// result is the payload itself, with no `.result` to read
{
  deleted: true,
  table_id: '6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f',
  column_id: '6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74'
}
```

**Python SDK**

```python
from wexa import Fabric

fabric = Fabric()
out = fabric.delete_column(
    table_id="6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f",
    column_id="6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74",
)
```

```python
# out is the result, already unwrapped
{
    "deleted": True,
    "table_id": "6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f",
    "column_id": "6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74"
}
```

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `table_id` | string | Required | Table id from `list-tables`, a 24-character hex id. A table in this project. |
| `column_id` | string | Required | Column id from `get-table`. A column on that table. The column and its values in every row are removed. |

**Show full response**

A real response, captured from a live call to `delete-column`:

**Result of delete-column**

**REST API**

```json
{
  "lifecycle_id": "qlc_000205",
  "result": {
    "column_id": "6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74",
    "deleted": true,
    "table_id": "6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f"
  }
}
```

**TypeScript SDK**

```ts
// the object you get back IS the result — there is no `.result` to read
{
  column_id: '6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74',
  deleted: true,
  table_id: '6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f'
}

// The TS SDK names these camelCase — lifecycleId, traceId — where Python uses
// lifecycle_id and trace_id. Both are non-enumerable: readable, but omitted by
// Object.keys() and JSON.stringify(). `result.lifecycleId` here is undefined.
result.lifecycleId // 'qlc_000205'
```

**Python SDK**

```python
# a dict subclass; `result` is already unwrapped
{
 "column_id": "6ab1968193a7cbd766d5cd74",
 "deleted": True,
 "table_id": "6ab196817566f41b5c28e31f"
}

out.lifecycle_id  # 'qlc_000205' — an attribute, not a key
```

Every tool call works the same way: [How every tool call works](/docs/sdks-and-apis/how-every-tool-call-works).