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What's the difference between DELETE TABLE and TRUNCATE TABLE commands

Martin Jakob

Martin Jakob

Nov 29, 2006
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    Last line is INCORRECT. Truncate Table CAN'T be rolled back.

    Priyanka
    November 08, 2007
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    DELETE TABLE is a logged operation, so the deletion of each row gets logged in the transaction log, which makes it slow. TRUNCATE TABLE also deletes all the rows in a table, but it won't log the deletion of each row, instead it logs the deallocation of the data pages of the table, which makes it faster. Of course, TRUNCATE TABLE can be rolled back.

    canuja
    November 29, 2006
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