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Asked: 2026-05-28T22:51:10+00:00

I have this table in a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance which I have

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I have this table in a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance which I have a scheduled process that runs nightly against it. The table can have upward to 500K records in it at any one time. After processing this table I need to remove all rows from it so I am wondering which of the following methods would produce the least overhead (ie Excessive Transaction Log entries):

  1. Truncate Table
  2. Drop and recreate the table

Deleting the contents of the table is out due to time and extra Transaction log entries it makes.

The consensus seems to be Truncation, Thanks everyone!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Truncating the table does not leave row-by-row entries in the transaction log – so neither solution will clutter up your logs too much. If it were me, I’d truncate over having to drop and create each time.

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