Tip: AVOID DELETE operation if the same task can be performed using TRUNCATE.
If you want to delete complete data from a table, then go for TRUNCATE instead of DELETE.
DELETE operation will maintain transaction log for each and every record it deletes from the table. This will unnecessarily consumes space in transaction log.
Where as TRUNCATE operation will not maintain the log and it will delete all the records from table at one shot.
Also, DELETE operation will consume significantly huge amount of time if the table is of big size.
In order to have better performance and to run the query with in shorter time use TRUNCATE instead of DELETE.
If you want to delete complete data from a table, then go for TRUNCATE instead of DELETE.
DELETE operation will maintain transaction log for each and every record it deletes from the table. This will unnecessarily consumes space in transaction log.
Where as TRUNCATE operation will not maintain the log and it will delete all the records from table at one shot.
Also, DELETE operation will consume significantly huge amount of time if the table is of big size.
In order to have better performance and to run the query with in shorter time use TRUNCATE instead of DELETE.
