Re: [GENERAL] Emptying a database.

Hi there.

Am 08-Oct-98 schrieb Stuart Rison:
>>you just want to dump all the data?  just use delete then..
>>
>>DELETE FROM tablename;
>>
>>Deletes all the data in the table....
>>
>
> Yes (thanks ;) ), but I want to do so for ALL my tables within a db without
> having to type in the command for each table (I mean currently I have 20
> tables but I'm likely to have more).
>
> The way around it I've thought of is to write a delete for each table in a
> file and then just run them with \i.

Or duplicate the database, delete everything from the duplicate (only need to
do this once, or whenever you add/delete tables from your design), and simply
copy the duplicate over the original whenever you want to clear it.

Regards, K.

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