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Asked: May 10, 20262026-05-10T14:38:48+00:00 2026-05-10T14:38:48+00:00

I had to delete all the rows from a log table that contained about

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I had to delete all the rows from a log table that contained about 5 million rows. My initial try was to issue the following command in query analyzer:

delete from client_log

which took a very long time.

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  1. 2026-05-10T14:38:49+00:00Added an answer on May 10, 2026 at 2:38 pm

    Check out truncate table which is a lot faster.

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