Truncate the table

Question

When you run a stored procedure which loads a table,will it automatically truncate the data in the table before doing a load or the DBA has to truncate the data.

Answer 1

Hi,
SQL> CREATE TABLE test2222 (testcol VARCHAR2(20));
Table created.
SQL>
SQL> desc test
Name                                      Null?    Type
A                                                  NUMBER(19)
B                                         NOT NULL NUMBER
SQL>
SQL> INSERT INTO test2222 VALUES ('ABC');
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO test2222 VALUES ('DEF');
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO test2222 VALUES ('xyz');
1 row created.
SQL> COMMIT;
Commit complete.
SQL>
SQL> SELECT * FROM test;
no rows selected
SQL>
SQL> BEGIN
  2    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE test2222';
  3  END;
  4  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>test is existing in DB....you can test with test2222;
- Pavan Kumar N
Edited by: Pavan Kumar on Oct 1, 2008 1:55 AM