What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE?

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What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE?..

Answer / shilpa

Delete command delets one row or whole table with table
defination but truncate command only delete table not table
defination

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What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE?..

Answer / debi

1.when we use delete command then the records from the
table is not deleted permanently so that when we further
use rollback command the records are again available in the
table but in case of truncate the data is permenently
deleted from the table.
2.in case of truncate data deletion is faster as compared
to delete
3.
we can't use ant where condition in case if truncate

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What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE?..

Answer / raam

Delete command will remove the data values ( all the
records of table) and space and table structure will be
ramain. We cannot free the space and remove the table
structure using Delete command.
Truncate command will free the memory and removes table
structure from data dictionary.

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What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE?..

Answer / sanjay keserwani

we can go upto some number of records through delete while
in truncate we have to unoccupied all records.

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What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE?..

Answer / amol

Be very careful when deleting records. You cannot undo this
statement! but in mysql...

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