Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 09/29/85 11:32

Hugo Kornelis (hugo@pe_NO_rFact.in_SPAM_fo) writes:
> A TRUNCATE TABLE operation is minimally logged. That means that there is
> just enough information in the log file to rollback if the transaction
> fails or commit if it doesn't - but not enough to re-apply the changes.

Reference?

TRUNCATE TABLE logs the extent deallocations, and that is perfecly
enough to reapply the changes.

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