Re: truncate or drop

Hi,

there's an option REUSE STORAGE for TRUNCATE command

Regards,
Ed

> 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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