RE: truncate or drop

From: Ken Janusz <ken.janusz_at_sufsys.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:35:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003D8FE4.20011210092025@fatcity.com>

Ruth:

I would think you would want to truncate which deletes all the data and resets the high water mark. Dropping the tables? I think this destroys the table? Then you have to recreate all the tables from a DDL SQL script.

Ken

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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 10:40 AM

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Subject:        truncate or drop

Hi Everyone!

I am trying to empty a database with some very large tables so I can import it again.
Which is faster, truncating or dropping the tables?

Thanks in advance,
Ruth

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