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Remove all rows quickly and reset auto-increment counters.

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Section: insert, update, and delete

Truncate a table

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TRUNCATE TABLE staging_events;
Explanation

Faster than `DELETE` for clearing a whole table, but behaves differently with transactions and foreign keys.

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