Compare and contrast TRUNCATE and DELETE for a table.
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Answer Posted / ramesh
Truncate is to delete the entire data of any table .does not
have criteria deletion
where as Delete can do that job
However Deleted blocks still persists and have to be
shrinked .otherwisem You still feel the Deleted Recs while
you Query Against
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