Delete, Truncate or Drop to clean out a table in MySQL

Question

I am attempting to clean out a table but not get rid of the actual structure of the table. I have an id column that is auto-incrementing; I don\'t need to keep the

Answer 1

drop table will remove the entire table with data

delete * from table will remove the data, leaving the autoincrement values alone. it also takes a while if there's a lot of data in the table.

truncate table will remove the data, reset the autoincrement values (but leave them as autoincrement columns, so it'll just start at 1 and go up from there again), and is very quick.