diff --git a/scripts/dm_store/dm_store_meta_cleardown.py b/scripts/dm_store/dm_store_meta_cleardown.py
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+# Pre-requisites. You need to login to az cli locally with your user having:
+# - read permissions on the ingest meta002 vault and also read permissions.
+# - read permissions on the ingest curated storage account.
+# - be on F5 VPN to access the curated storage account.
+# To get the count of records to be deleted, run:
+# python3 dm_store_meta_cleardown.py --lz-key 01 --env stg
+# To perform the actual delete, run:
+# python3 dm_store_meta_cleardown.py --lz-key 01 --env stg --delete-run
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import adlfs
+import pandas as pd
+import psycopg2
+import pyarrow.dataset as ds
+from azure.identity import AzureCliCredential
+from azure.keyvault.secrets import SecretClient
+from deltalake import DeltaTable
+
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=logging.INFO,
+    format="%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s",
+)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--lz-key", default="00")
+    parser.add_argument("--env", default="sbox")
+    parser.add_argument("--delete-run", action="store_true")
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+SECRET_KEYS = [
+    "DM-STORE-HOST",
+    "DM-STORE-PORT",
+    "DM-STORE-DB",
+    "DM-STORE-USER",
+    "DM-STORE-PASS",
+]
+
+
+def get_secrets(vault_url: str, credential: AzureCliCredential) -> dict[str, str]:
+    client = SecretClient(vault_url=vault_url, credential=credential)
+    secrets = {}
+    for key in SECRET_KEYS:
+        logger.info(f"Retrieving secret: {key}")
+        secrets[key] = client.get_secret(key).value
+        logger.info(f"Successfully retrieved: {key}")
+    return secrets
+
+
+def connect(secrets: dict[str, str]) -> psycopg2.extensions.connection:
+    conn = psycopg2.connect(
+        host=secrets["DM-STORE-HOST"],
+        port=int(secrets["DM-STORE-PORT"]),
+        dbname=secrets["DM-STORE-DB"],
+        user=secrets["DM-STORE-USER"],
+        password=secrets["DM-STORE-PASS"],
+        connect_timeout=10,
+    )
+    logger.info("Database connection established")
+    return conn
+
+
+def read_delta(storage_account: str, delta_path: str, credential: AzureCliCredential) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    storage_options = {
+        "account_name": storage_account,
+        "use_azure_cli": "true",
+    }
+    logger.info(f"Reading delta table from: {delta_path}")
+    dt = DeltaTable(delta_path, storage_options=storage_options)
+
+    active_files = [f.removeprefix("az://") for f in dt.file_uris()]
+    logger.info(f"Found {len(active_files)} active parquet files in transaction log")
+
+    fs = adlfs.AzureBlobFileSystem(account_name=storage_account, credential=credential)
+    dataset = ds.dataset(active_files, filesystem=fs, format="parquet")
+    df = dataset.to_table().to_pandas()
+    logger.info(f"Read {len(df):,} rows from ack_audit")
+    return df
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+    credential = AzureCliCredential()
+
+    ack_audit_path = "az://silver/ARIADM/ACTIVE/CCD/AUDIT/APPEALS/CDAM/ack_audit"
+    audit_results = read_delta(f"ingest{args.lz_key}curated{args.env}", ack_audit_path, credential)
+
+    uuids = audit_results["document_url"].str.split("/").str[-1].tolist()
+    logger.info(f"Extracted {len(uuids):,} UUIDs from document_url")
+    logger.info(uuids)
+
+    if args.delete_run:
+        query = """
+            DELETE FROM documentmetadata
+            WHERE name = 'case_id'
+            AND documentmetadata_id IN %s
+        """
+    else:
+        query = """
+            SELECT COUNT(*) FROM documentmetadata
+            WHERE name = 'case_id'
+            AND documentmetadata_id IN %s
+        """
+
+    logger.info("About to run query:")
+    logger.info(query)
+
+    keyvault_url = f"https://ingest{args.lz_key}-meta002-{args.env}.vault.azure.net/"
+    secrets = get_secrets(keyvault_url, credential)
+    conn = connect(secrets)
+    try:
+        with conn.cursor() as cur:
+            cur.execute(query, (tuple(uuids),))
+            if args.delete_run:
+                logger.info(f"Deleted {cur.rowcount:,} rows from documentmetadata")
+            else:
+                count = cur.fetchone()[0]
+                logger.info(f"Count of records for deletion = {count:,}")
+        conn.commit()
+    finally:
+        conn.close()
+        logger.info("Connection closed")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts/dm_store/requirements.txt b/scripts/dm_store/requirements.txt
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+adlfs>=2024.2.0
+azure-identity>=1.19.0
+azure-keyvault-secrets>=4.9.0
+deltalake>=1.6.0
+pandas>=2.0.0
+pyarrow>=15.0.0
+psycopg2-binary>=2.9.0