You cannot truncate a table that has foreign key constraints. I would script your truncate statement to drop the constraints, then truncate the table, and then re-create the constraints.

Sep 24, 2014 · I have only 2GB left, so I need to remove this history table. This table now is empty but the database disk space not released. And the database file is 320GB.

Apr 12, 2017 · Can I use truncate command with a where clause? I need to remove specific rows from several tables. How can I delete specific data from the entire database? SELECT …

Apr 15, 2013 · Is there a way to truncate table that has foreign keys ? Delete and reseed can take too long. Is deleting and recreating keys only way ? If so is there a tool that does this ?

Sep 29, 2018 · Doesn’t matter if the table is empty. You need to either drop and re-create the foreign key constraint or just perform a delete instead of a truncate. How often are you really …

TRUNCATE TABLE permissions default to the table owner, members of the sysadmin fixed server role, and the db_owner and db_ddladmin fixed database roles, and are not transferable.

Just like what happened in your case. Now when you truncate the table, it will reset the Identity value to its original Seed value of the table. Refer to : SQL SERVER – DELETE, TRUNCATE …

Feb 28, 2018 · How Do I give permission for user to Truncate all tables in database? The minimum permission required is 'ALTER on table_name' per articles below. With this, how do I …

Sep 1, 2016 · I have a SQL Server 2012 database. Is it possible to get last truncated time for all tables in the database? Note: Recovery mode is SIMPLE in my scenario. Is it possible if I …

Truncate is O (1) - a pure metadata operation. This is assuming there is no concurrent activity on the table. Truncate will potentially need to wait until existing reads are done to acquire a Sch …