Question

I have a stored procedure that writes results to a Result table. How do you truncate / erase a table from within a stored procedure?

example

call peformTest()

truncate TestResultTable;

//do stuff with new data to insert into TestResultTable
end

Answer 1

If you want to remove all data from the table, then your syntax is correct:

truncate testResultTable;

or

truncate table testResultTable;

Depending on your specific needs, if you need to get rid of the table correctly and then re-create it, you can do:

drop table testResultTable;
create table testResultTable as select ... from ... where ...