How to drop all tables in MySQL
This article demonstrates several ways for users to delete all tables in MySQL and lists sample scripts to implement this method.
The reason you can't just drop all the tables in one line of code is that in a large and well-designed database, there are likely to be many foreign key constraints.
SQL query to delete all tables
This works because we disabled foreign key checks at the beginning. So no matter what order we drop the tables in, no constraint errors will be thrown. Just make sure to re-enable foreign key checks after the script.
Clear and recreate the database
To do this you need to make sure that in addition to the tables you are willing to remove stored functions, indexes, roles, and other settings outside of the tables since you are dropping the entire database.
dropFor this to succeed, the current user must have and createpermissions
in the database .
DROP DATABASE database_name;
After deleting, recreate the database.
CREATE DATABASE database_name;
This method is probably the least stable way to drop all tables. This is only suitable for small or experimental databases.
In MySQL, mysqldumpuse
mysqldumpIt is the console command of MySQL. Assuming you have set MySQL in your path variable, we can use this command to delete the table in the database.
This will be easier if you have some familiarity with console commands and have MySQL set up in your PATH variable.
Verify the deleted table
To verify whether all tables are really deleted, we can use this script to check whether the database can still output tables.
SHOW TABLES FROM database_name;
If there is no output, it means the query has been executed successfully and all SQL tables for that particular database have been deleted.
In summary, the reason why you can't directly delete tables in batches in SQL is that relational databases rely heavily on relationships and constraints. If you are allowed to delete tables without explicitly disabling foreign key checks, relationships, constraints, and foreign key configurations will be destroyed.
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