We can rolled back the delete if there is a condition. like :
Delete from where id = 1

but we can’t rolled back delete if there is no condition. like :
Delete from

and also we can’t rolled back the truncate .

I have checked this…..

if this is wrong please specify it.

Thanks for replying. I feel confuse when you mention roll back using log file together with the “Roll Back” statement. Roll back statement only rolls back the current open transaction in current database session. It can not roll back a committed transaction.

Roll back using log file however will roll back many transactions. we can not roll back a specific delete that way. Everthing done after the delete will also get rolled back. I got the impression from your post that we can roll back a specific delete statement using log file.

As you point out roll back using log file is to restore a database to a point of time

Thanks for comment. I have tested it earlier and delete can be rolled back using log files even though it is committed. You will have to use point of time restore using log files. However, Truncate can not be restored using log files. I tried to convey this message in title of this post.

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