# Downsampling existing data

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/downsampling-existing-data/1224>\
**Category:** Systems\
**Tags:** influxdb\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/downsampling-existing-data/1224 "2017-06-07T23:43:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/downsampling-existing-data/1224/2 "2017-06-07T23:57:29Z")

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@nicolas17 You can run raw [`INTO` queries without the CQ syntax](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.2/query_language/data_exploration/#the-into-clause) to accomplish this. I just did this on one of our instances today!

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