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What is the difference between TRUNCATE and DELETE commands?

April 26, 2017commands delete truncate

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What is the difference between TRUNCATE and DELETE commands?

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Both will result in deleting all the rows in the table .TRUNCATE call cannot be rolled back as it is a DDL command and all memory space for that table is released back to the server. TRUNCATE is much faster.Whereas DELETE call is an DML command and can be rolled back.