Question d’entretien chez Coforge

What is difference between delete and truncate in sql?

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Utilisateur anonyme

28 mars 2022

Delete is used in dml where truncate is used in dcl

Utilisateur anonyme

23 mars 2025

Answer delete is used to delete a specific row we can use where clause and is a type of dml whereas truncate is used when we need to completely delete all rows in table and is type of ddl