If you drop a table with indexed columns, all the indexes are automatically dropped. If you drop a composite index, the index is dropped for all the columns that are named in that index. You cannot ...

DROP EXTERNAL TABLE (Transact-SQL) [!INCLUDE sqlserver2016-asdbmi-asa-pdw ] Removes a PolyBase external table from a database, but doesn't delete the external data.

Drop table if exists: We can write a statement as below in SQL Server 2016 to remove a stored table if it exists. DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.temp. The output will be like this. Drop table by using the ...

Another option is to use the SQL DROP statement to delete the entire table, along with its structure and indexes. This is useful if you want to get rid of a table that you no longer need.

TRUNCATE comes under DDL(Data Definition Language). TRUNCATE removes only rows from the table but the structure of the table remains same. Data can not be roll backed if we use "TRUNCATE" command to ...