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TRUNCATE Syntax
TRUNCATE TABLE table_name |
In 3.23 TRUNCATE TABLE is mapped to
COMMIT; DELETE FROM table_name. See section 13.1.1 DELETE Syntax.
TRUNCATE TABLE differs from DELETE FROM ...
in the following ways:
AUTO_INCREMENT value
but may start counting from the beginning. This is true for
MyISAM, ISAM, and BDB tables.
TRUNCATE TABLE is an Oracle SQL extension.
This statement was added in MySQL 3.23.28, although from 3.23.28
to 3.23.32, the keyword TABLE must be omitted.