Apr 12, 2017 · Can I use truncate command with a where clause? I need to remove specific rows from several tables. How can I delete specific data from the entire database? SELECT …

Feb 28, 2018 · How Do I give permission for user to Truncate all tables in database? The minimum permission required is 'ALTER on table_name' per articles below. With this, how do I give permission …

Sep 29, 2018 · Doesn’t matter if the table is empty. You need to either drop and re-create the foreign key constraint or just perform a delete instead of a truncate. How often are you really just emptying …

You cannot truncate a table that has foreign key constraints. I would script your truncate statement to drop the constraints, then truncate the table, and then re-create the constraints.

The point of the truncate is to simply and irrevocably remove everything in the table (some technical specifics based on data store engines may differ slightly) -- skipping heavy logging, etc.

Aug 21, 2019 · 3 Locking for truncate and delete is different. As for locking TRUNCATE behave more like 'ALTER TABLE' than DELETE. From Microsoft documentation: TRUNCATE TABLE (Transact …

Dec 13, 2012 · Truncate requires "alter table" permission (in the sense that truncate is plug in replacement for delete).

TRUNCATE TABLE permissions default to the table owner, members of the sysadmin fixed server role, and the db_owner and db_ddladmin fixed database roles, and are not transferable.

Sep 19, 2023 · If I do truncate my table, will the growth of other tables re-use that space freed up, and hence save disk space in the long term? Yup, which is one reason why SHRINK ing is silly - it's just …

May 26, 2013 · DELETE If you click Delete rows in destination table it will fail because it doesn't issue a DELETE command, it issues a TRUNCATE command which still conflicts with our foreign keys …