As said yes, you just launch your old fashioned delete from statement, without any where clause, mySQL will interpret this as everything (which is infact what it does, it maches everything and therefor deletes everything). -- Kim Steinhaug --------------------------------------------------------------- There are 10 types of people when it comes to binary numbers: those who understand them, and those who don't. --------------------------------------------------------------- "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Pine.WNT.4.56.0311262104180.3676@xxxxxxx > delete from table_name > > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Chris Payne wrote: > > > Hi there everyone, > > > > Just a quick question which I can't for the life of me find the answer for on MySQL's website (Probably as i'm looking for the wrong term?) I want to know how to empty a table, is there an empty command or should I just tell it to delete everything? > > > > Chris -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php