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sent_sara
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Posted - 2010-03-25 : 19:07:22

hi whether truncating temp table will delete a index too?

tkizer
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Posted - 2010-03-25 : 20:35:15

It doesn't drop the indexes, if that's what you mean. It deletes the data, so the index's data is gone too. The indexes still exist though.

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sent_sara
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

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Posted - 2010-03-26 : 11:39:36

you mean the definition exists..index data alone truncated?

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Originally posted by tkizer

It doesn't drop the indexes, if that's what you mean. It deletes the data, so the index's data is gone too. The indexes still exist though.

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tkizer
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Posted - 2010-03-26 : 11:56:13

Yes.

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