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An esoteric little SQL brain teaser
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20/10/2013 06:14:11
 
 
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Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Other
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SQL Server:
SQL Server 2012
Application:
Web
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01585872
Message ID:
01585873
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>Here's a little brain teaser. This could be a "who's buried in Grant's tomb" question....or it might be a trick question.
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>Here we go. In SQL Server, suppose you're in a SQL transaction. During the transaction, you truncate a table by issuing the TRUNCATE TABLE statement. Let's say the table had 100 rows before the TRUNCATE.
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>Here's the question - can you issue a ROLLBACK statement and bring back the 100 rows?
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>Obviously, you could cheat and try it out in SQL Server, so I'm asking for honesty.
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>There's a story behind this question.....

I have no experience to back this up but since TRUNCATE TABLE does no logging, I'd intuit that there's no ROLLBACK possible and would use DELETE instead if I wanted ROLLBACK.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.
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