{"id":144,"date":"2018-12-06T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barkhane.com\/sql\/2018\/12\/06\/sql-truncate-table\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T18:01:58","slug":"sql-truncate-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkhane.com\/sql\/sql-truncate-table\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL TRUNCATE TABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SQL TRUNCATE TABLE : A truncate SQL statement is used to remove all rows (complete data) from a <a href=\"https:\/\/barkhane.com\/sql\/sql-table\/\">table<\/a>. It is similar to the DELETE statement with no WHERE clause.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"h4\">TRUNCATE TABLE Vs DELETE TABLE<\/h4>\n<p>Truncate table is faster and uses lesser resources than DELETE TABLE command.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"h4\">TRUNCATE TABLE Vs DROP TABLE<\/h4>\n<p>Drop table command can also be used to delete complete table but it deletes table structure too. TRUNCATE TABLE doesn\\&#8217;t delete the structure of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Let\\&#8217;s see the syntax to truncate the table from the database.<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<pre>TRUNCATE TABLE table_name;<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example, you can write following command to truncate the data of employee table<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<pre>TRUNCATE\u00a0 TABLE \u00a0Employee;<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b>\u00a0The rollback process is not possible after truncate table statement. Once you truncate a table you cannot use a flashback table statement to retrieve the content of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQL TRUNCATE TABLE : A truncate SQL statement is used to remove all rows (complete data) from a table. 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