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Question:  What is difference between TRUNCATE & DELETE

Answer:
Answer posted by Scott on 2005-05-25 18:30:04: TRUNCATE is a DDL command and cannot be rolled back. All of the memory space is released back to the server. 
DELETE is a DML command and can be rolled back. 
 
Both commands accomplish identical tasks (removing all data from a table), but TRUNCATE is much faster.


November 11, 2005 03:33:36 #8
 santapan   Member Since: October 2005    Total Comments: 1 

RE: What is difference between TRUNCATE & DELETE
 
truncate is a Transcation control language & is run under set auto commit true status.Where as delete is a DML operation where we can easily rolled back the query output.
     

 

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