# Create new database if current database exceeds its limit

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/create-new-database-if-current-database-exceeds-its-limit/4960>\
**Category:** Store\
**Created:** [April 30, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/create-new-database-if-current-database-exceeds-its-limit/4960 "2018-04-30T06:52:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![ardel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/ardel/32/2827_2.png) [@ardel](https://community.influxdata.com/u/ardel)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/create-new-database-if-current-database-exceeds-its-limit/4960/1 "2018-04-30T06:52:27Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am new to InfluxDB. May I know if there’s a way that a new database will be created if the its limit is met. I know a little about RP but is there a way without using RP?

What I’m trying to do is to delete all the data which has retention date of 14 days

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**Author:** ![noahcrowley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/noahcrowley/32/818_2.png) [@noahcrowley](https://community.influxdata.com/u/noahcrowley)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/create-new-database-if-current-database-exceeds-its-limit/4960/2 "2018-05-04T21:54:44Z")

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Hi @ardel,

I’m not sure if I understand what you wrote here:

> [@ardel](#):
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> if there’s a way that a new database will be created if the its limit is met. I know a little about RP but is there a way without using RP?

If you want to delete all data older than 14 days, then a [retention policy](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/guides/downsampling_and_retention/#retention-policies) is the right way to do that. Could you explain why you would like to do this without using retention policies?