--- layout: global title: TRUNCATE TABLE displayTitle: TRUNCATE TABLE license: | Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --- ### Description The `TRUNCATE TABLE` statement removes all the rows from a table or partition(s). The table must not be a view or an external/temporary table. In order to truncate multiple partitions at once, the user can specify the partitions in `partition_spec`. If no `partition_spec` is specified it will remove all partitions in the table. ### Syntax {% highlight sql %} TRUNCATE TABLE table_name [PARTITION partition_spec]; {% endhighlight %} ### Parameters
table_name
PARTITION ( partition_spec :[ partition_column = partition_col_value, partition_column = partition_col_value, ...] )