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RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:10:51 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003FFDAB.20020129180019@fatcity.com>

JoJo,

sorry -- but truncating does "delete" the data because as far as Oracle is concerned, if you do a select count(*) from the table after a delete, you will get 0 rows returned.

Cursors do not have anything to do with the location of the end of a table, they are a programming construct

Rachel


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