Well, well, well!
It's Jeremy Greaves! Hehe. How have you been? "Is this a trick
question?" Of course not! It's a "slow pitch" or "knuckle ball" "kinda
question"! hehe.





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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Greaves
[mailto:mssqldba-ezmlmshield-x63588365.[Email address protected]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:48 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE SQL Server Truncate Table


Truncate is not supposed to be able to be rolled back, as it deallocates
the data files and makes their extents available for writing over. The
actual deallocation is logged in the transaction log however, but
technically TRUNCATE statements are not available for rollback. However
if you put the truncate statement within a BEGIN TRAN - (ROLLBACK TRAN)
COMMIT TRAN block, then of course that sessions activity is capable of
rollback. However, if you FUBAR by the use of TRUNCATE and have a
backup.... Is this a trick question?
Jeremy Greaves
Fenris Software Consulting, Inc

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