You might want to drop a target table when you want to re-create it based on the latest source object definition. When you reset target tables for a

replication

task, the task performs the following actions:

Drops all of the target tables included in the
replication
task from the database.
Sets the load type for the
replication
task to full load.

After you run the

replication

task to reset the target, you must run the

replication

task again to reload the data from all source objects included in the task. When you run the

replication

task after you reset the target, the

replication

task recreates each target table. The

replication

task then loads all of the data into the new table.

If the target table is damaged, the

replication

task might consistently fail to write to the target table. You might need to reset the relational target.