TRUNCATE TABLE
Description
The TRUNCATE TABLE statement removes all the rows from a table or partition(s). The table must not be a view
or an external/temporary table. In order to truncate multiple partitions at once, the user can specify the partitions
in partition_spec. If no partition_spec is specified it will remove all partitions in the table.
Syntax
TRUNCATE TABLE table_identifier [ partition_spec ]
Parameters
-
table_identifier
Specifies a table name, which may be optionally qualified with a database name.
Syntax:
[ database_name. ] table_name -
partition_spec
An optional parameter that specifies a comma separated list of key and value pairs for partitions.
Syntax:
PARTITION ( partition_col_name = partition_col_val [ , ... ] )
Examples
-- Create table Student with partition
CREATE TABLE Student (name STRING, rollno INT) PARTITIONED BY (age INT);
SELECT * FROM Student;
+----+------+---+
|name|rollno|age|
+----+------+---+
| ABC| 1| 10|
| DEF| 2| 10|
| XYZ| 3| 12|
+----+------+---+
-- Removes all rows from the table in the partition specified
TRUNCATE TABLE Student partition(age=10);
-- After truncate execution, records belonging to partition age=10 are removed
SELECT * FROM Student;
+----+------+---+
|name|rollno|age|
+----+------+---+
| XYZ| 3| 12|
+----+------+---+
-- Removes all rows from the table from all partitions
TRUNCATE TABLE Student;
SELECT * FROM Student;
+----+------+---+
|name|rollno|age|
+----+------+---+
+----+------+---+