It is very easy to drop an existing MySQL table, but you need to be very careful while deleting any existing table because the data lost will not be recovered after deleting a table.
Syntax
Here is a generic SQL syntax to drop a MySQL table −
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?>Dropping Tables from the Command Prompt
To drop tables from the command prompt, we need to execute the DROP TABLE SQL command at the mysql> prompt.
Example
The following program is an example which deletes the tutorials_tbl −
root@host# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
mysql> use mydb;
Database changed
mysql> DROP TABLE employee;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.27 sec)
mysql>Dropping Tables Using PHP Script
To drop an existing table in any database, you would need to use the PHP function mysqli_query(). You will pass its second argument with a proper SQL command to drop a table.
Example
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