hibernate and delete all

Question

What is the best way to delete all rows in a table in Hibernate?

If I iterate over a collection and call session.delete() it\'s not perform

Answer 1

You can use HQL for truncate table

public int hqlTruncate(String myTable){
    String hql = String.format("delete from %s",myTable);
    Query query = session.createQuery(hql)
    return query.executeUpdate();
}