Re: EMPTYING A DATABASE

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> I am developing a project in which, of course, information is fed to the DB
> for testing purposes and sometimes I need to get the DB clean, without any
> record.
> What would be the best practice to delete all of the records and start
> testing with a blank DB?

Your best bet is to recreate the database. Start with an database that has all
the tables already emptied out, then make a copy of it. Then drop and
recreate your database at will using the copy as a template. So, if your
datbase was named "alpha", you would do (one time only):

(truncate all tables, get the alpha database in a clean state)
CREATE DATABASE alpha_template TEMPLATE alpha;

Then, every time you want to create a clean copy, do:

DROP DATABASE alpha;
CREATE DATABASE alpha TEMPLATE alpha_template;

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