diff --git a/application/controllers/Update.php b/application/controllers/Update.php
index 338e3ec6b..ca7ebf33d 100644
--- a/application/controllers/Update.php
+++ b/application/controllers/Update.php
@@ -255,9 +255,9 @@ class Update extends CI_Controller {
 			}
 
 			// Clear the tables, ready for new data
-			$this->db->empty_table("dxcc_entities");
-			$this->db->empty_table("dxcc_exceptions");
-			$this->db->empty_table("dxcc_prefixes");
+			$this->db->query("TRUNCATE TABLE dxcc_entities");
+			$this->db->query("TRUNCATE TABLE dxcc_exceptions");
+			$this->db->query("TRUNCATE TABLE dxcc_prefixes");
 			$this->update_status();
 
 			// Parse the three sections of the file and update the tables
diff --git a/application/models/Update_model.php b/application/models/Update_model.php
index 3e0a4d646..28ff993ca 100644
--- a/application/models/Update_model.php
+++ b/application/models/Update_model.php
@@ -287,8 +287,7 @@ class Update_model extends CI_Model {
         }
 
         rewind($f);
-        $this->db->empty_table("lotw_users");
-        $this->db->query("ALTER TABLE lotw_users AUTO_INCREMENT 1");
+ 		$this->db->query("TRUNCATE TABLE lotw_users");
         $i = 0;
         $data = fgetcsv($f, 1000, ",", '"', '\\');
         do {
@@ -564,8 +563,7 @@ class Update_model extends CI_Model {
 		if ($http_result['http_code'] == "200") {
 			$lines = explode("\n", $response);
 			if (count($lines) > 0) {	// Check if there was data, otherwise skip parsing / truncating the table and preserve whats there
-				$this->db->empty_table("hams_of_note");
-				$this->db->query("ALTER TABLE hams_of_note AUTO_INCREMENT 1");
+				$this->db->query("TRUNCATE TABLE hams_of_note");
 				$i = 0;
 				foreach($lines as $data) {
 					$line = trim($data);