What’s the difference between DELETE TABLE and TRUNCATE TABLE commands?
By admin on Mar 14, 2007 in Ms Sql Server Interview Questions
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.
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By Alam on Mar 16, 2007 | Reply
TRUNCATE TABLE can’t be rolled back