Re: truncate or drop

From: Christian Trassens <ctrassens_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:58:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003D8FB2.20011210092022@fatcity.com>

Both could be slowly if tables have many extents and you use extent management dictionary. However I think drop would be a little more expensive considering that not only it has to erase info from uet$ and fet$, also from basically c_obj# and others clusters.

Regards.  

• Ruth Gramolini <rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us> wrote:
  > 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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