How to remove all tables from MySQL Database?

Connect to your mysql host and select the database to be used
example: use notfavoritedb; where notfavoritedb is your database name, and then enter the sql commands given below:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
SET GROUP_CONCAT_MAX_LEN=32768;
SET @tables = NULL;
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT('`', table_name, '`') INTO @tables
  FROM information_schema.tables
  WHERE table_schema = (SELECT DATABASE());
SELECT IFNULL(@tables,'dummy') INTO @tables;
 
SET @tables = CONCAT('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ', @tables);
PREPARE stmt FROM @tables;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;
exit;

Reference: StackOverflow

Posted

October 19, 2018

MySQL

Harshvardhan Malpani

Tags:

delete, flush, MySQL, remove, tables

How to remove all tables from MySQL Database?

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