# Manage data

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:::card{title="Target an index" href="/guides/manage-data-target-an-index"}
Target a Pinecone index by host URL (recommended for production) or by name for data operations like upsert, query, and fetch across SDKs.
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:::card{title="Manage serverless indexes" href="/guides/manage-data-manage-indexes"}
List, describe, configure, and delete serverless indexes in Pinecone, including tags, deletion protection, and metadata index configuration.
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:::card{title="Manage namespaces" href="/guides/manage-data-manage-namespaces"}
Create, describe, list, and delete namespaces in Pinecone serverless indexes, including defining filterable metadata fields and schemas ahead of upsert.
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:::card{title="Update data" href="/guides/manage-data-update-data"}
Patch fields on Pinecone documents by ID, update record metadata and vector values by ID, or update metadata across documents and records with a filter.
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:::card{title="Delete data" href="/guides/manage-data-delete-data"}
Delete Pinecone documents or records from a namespace by ID or metadata filter, or delete every document or record the namespace holds.
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:::card{title="Fetch data" href="/guides/manage-data-fetch-data"}
Retrieve Pinecone documents or records from a namespace by ID or metadata filter to inspect their fields, vector values, and metadata.
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:::card{title="List IDs" href="/guides/manage-data-list-record-ids"}
List the IDs of Pinecone documents or records in a namespace of a serverless index, filter them by ID prefix, and paginate through the results.
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## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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