# Delete Tags alone from series

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/delete-tags-alone-from-series/5343>\
**Category:** Systems\
**Tags:** influxdb, influxdata, influxql\
**Created:** [May 29, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/delete-tags-alone-from-series/5343 "2018-05-29T13:17:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Pangaj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/pangaj/32/1416_2.png) [@Pangaj](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Pangaj)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/delete-tags-alone-from-series/5343/1 "2018-05-29T13:17:34Z")

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My database measurement has reached a series of 1,00,000 records because of misplacement of tag instead of field, and causing 400 http response code.

**Can I able to delete the TAG alone** from a series

Or **can I able to change the tag value to field value**

I can bear to lose my tag keys alone and not the series. How to do it?

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**Author:** ![katy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/katy/32/855_2.png) [@katy](https://community.influxdata.com/u/katy)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/delete-tags-alone-from-series/5343/2 "2018-05-29T17:51:55Z")

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You’ll have to rewrite the points if you want to change the schema.

I’ve seen people do this using [`influx_inspect export`](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.5/tools/influx_inspect/#influx-inspect-export) to get the raw line protocol that you could then grep and modify to fit your needs.