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Posted to dev@hbase.apache.org by Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> on 2011/01/26 01:37:06 UTC

quick method for removing all rows in a table

HBase shell provides this command:
truncate  Disables, drops and recreates the specified table

Is there a quicker way of removing all rows ?

Thanks

Re: quick method for removing all rows in a table

Posted by Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>.

There's slower ways, but not quicker ways as far as I know.

J-D

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HBase shell provides this command:
> truncate  Disables, drops and recreates the specified table
>
> Is there a quicker way of removing all rows ?
>
> Thanks
>