On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists@yahoo.it> wrote:
>> The amount of data loss on a big
>> table will be <1% of the data loss
>>caused by truncating the whole table.
>
> If that 1% is random (not time/transaction related), usually you'd rather have an empty table.
Why do you think it would be random?
> In other words: is a table that is not consistant with anything else in the db useful?
That's too big a leap. Why would it suddenly be inconsistent with the
rest of the database?
Not good arguments.
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