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September 10, 2019

How Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) accounts can perform the truncate table operation from SiteWorx.

ATTENTION: The truncate table operation functions as a quick way to remove all rows from a table while leaving the table itself intact. You cannot roll back this operation.

If you are a Nexcess client on a physical (non-cloud) server, you can perform the truncate table operation from SiteWorx. If you are a Nexcess Cloud client, see instead How to truncate MySQL tables in Nexcess Cloud.

  1. Log in to your SiteWorx account.
  2. On the left, select Hosting Features > MySQL > PhpMyAdmin.
  3. Select the correct database from the list on the left.
  4. Select the check box corresponding to the desired table from the Table List.
  5. From the With selected list, click Empty.
  6. Click Yes when prompted.


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Jason Dobry
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