What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE?
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Answer / shilpa
Delete command delets one row or whole table with table
defination but truncate command only delete table not table
defination
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Answer / debi
1.when we use delete command then the records from the
table is not deleted permanently so that when we further
use rollback command the records are again available in the
table but in case of truncate the data is permenently
deleted from the table.
2.in case of truncate data deletion is faster as compared
to delete
3.
we can't use ant where condition in case if truncate
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Delete command will remove the data values ( all the
records of table) and space and table structure will be
ramain. We cannot free the space and remove the table
structure using Delete command.
Truncate command will free the memory and removes table
structure from data dictionary.
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Answer / sanjay keserwani
we can go upto some number of records through delete while
in truncate we have to unoccupied all records.
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Answer / amol
Be very careful when deleting records. You cannot undo this
statement! but in mysql...
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