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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:46:42+00:00

Straight out of the MSDN docs for Sql Server 2005 : You cannot use

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Straight out of the MSDN docs for Sql Server 2005:

You cannot use TRUNCATE TABLE on tables that:

  • Are referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint.
  • Participate in an indexed view.
  • Are published by using transactional replication or merge replication.

I want the effect of a TRUNCATE (specifically the fact that it resets IDENTITY type columns), but I can’t use one in my case because my table is referenced by a foreign-key elsewhere in the database.

Update: This is for a testing configuration where I am clearing out the referencing table as well, so foreign-key integrity is a non-issue.

What other ways are there to get around this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can delete all the rows and then do a DBCC CHECKIDENT (Tablename, RESEED, 0) to reset the identity seed

    But again DELETE is fully logged while TRUNCATE is minimally logged and will be many times faster

    Another option is to drop the foreign key constrains then do a truncate and then recreating the foreign key constraints

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