Truncate Vs Delete

If a table contains 2 million rows, consider the below scenarios?
- DELETE command to delete just few rows in a 2 million row table.
- TRUNCATE command (will obviously deletes 2 million rows)
Which is faster. Truncate or Delete?
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Mayur

  • Jan 25th, 2017
 

Truncate will be faster as there is no condition to check however with delete it will go through the 2 million records to find which ones fit the condition.

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