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TRUNCATE

Explore how to use the TRUNCATE statement in SQL to delete all rows from a table efficiently. Understand its speed advantages over DELETE, its limitations with transactions, and appropriate scenarios for its use, especially with temporary tables and InnoDB engines.

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Truncate

In the previous lesson, we learned how to delete data using the DELETE statement. However, if we intend to delete all the rows from a table then a faster route is to use the TRUNCATE statement. Generally, we don’t want to ...