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  1. #1
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    Hi Peeps,

    I tried to truncate a table that has about 300 records.
    fter 5 minutes it was not complete. So I stopped it and used
    the delete command instead. The delete took less than 2 seconds.

    If truncate is supposed to be faster than the delete, why was the
    truncate slow and delet fast. Any ideas why?

  2. #2
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    Truncate tries to deallocate space, which could take longer, if there is a lot of space to deallocate.

    http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/...7a.htm#2067573
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