which is best truncate or delete to remove all rows from table student_course?

Question

I work on sql server 2017

i need to delete all rows from table student_course

but i don't know use

delete from student_course

or

truncate table student_course

table student_course

studentid pk

courseid pk

table student table

studentid pk

table courses

courseid pk

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student_course table have relation with courses table and student table

so which command will be used to delete all rows from table student_course

truncate or delete ?

What I have tried:

delete from student_course

or

truncate table student_course

Answer 1

If you want to delete all rows from student_course and there are no dependencies on that table in the database, the TRUNCATE TABLE student_course should be faster.

Answer 2

If you have an foreign key to the table, you must use delete, instead of truncate.