This means that you need to first set foreign_key_check to disable and after that you need to truncate tables. The syntax is as follows −
set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0; TRUNCATE TABLE yourTableName1; TRUNCATE TABLE yourTableName2; TRUNCATE TABLE yourTableName3; . . . . TRUNCATE TABLE yourTableNameN; set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;
Now, truncate some tables from our database test. The query is as follows −
mysql> set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> truncate table skiplasttenrecords; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.97 sec) mysql> truncate table searchtextdemo; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.89 sec) mysql> set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
To cross check whether the data is present in the table or not −
mysql> select *from searchtextdemo; Empty set (0.00 sec) mysql> select *from skiplasttenrecords; Empty set (0.00 sec)
Empty set tells that there are no record in the table.