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An operation that removes all rows in a table without causing any triggered action

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Truncated 200GB table but disk space not released

Best Practices Consider the following information when you plan to shrink a file: A shrink operation is most effective after an operation that creates lots of unused space, such as a truncate
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What permissions are necessary for truncating a table?

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. … However, you can incorporate the TRUNCATE TABLE statement within a module, such as a stored procedure, and grant appropriate permissions to the module using the EXECUTE AS clause. …
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Safe way to truncate SQL Server Error Log

This will not technically "truncate" the log, it'll just roll it over and you can handle the old logs as you so please, like any other file system file. …
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