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  • June 17, 2013 at 5:01 am

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    GilaMonster (6/17/2013)

    Jeff Moden (6/17/2013)

    then you could use TRUNCATE instead of DELETE and that will be minimally logged.

    Technically truncate is fully logged. It just logs the page deallocations like a drop table does rather than the rows as delete does.

    Agreed. I probably shouldn't have used the words "minimally logged" here but the effect is nearly the same.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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