Comments on: MySQL Empty Database / Delete or Drop All Tables

By: Harshit

Harshit — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:50:59 +0000

I agree with Romina

I followed it and ended with completely deleting the database and not just the tables!! Your post title is absolutely incorrect. Please change it..

EVERYONE BE CAREFUL WHILE DOING THIS

By: Lon F. Binder

Lon F. Binder — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:34:02 +0000

A little longer, but also a little more efficient because it does the drop (of all tables) in one shot:


mysql --user=YOUR_USERNAME --password=YOUR_PASSWORD -BNe "show tables" YOUR_DBSCHEMA_NAME | tr '\n' ',' | sed -e 's/,$//' | awk '{print "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " $1 ";SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;"}' | mysql --user=YOUR_USERNAME --password=YOUR_PASSWORD  YOUR_DBSCHEMA_NAME

By: ddb

ddb — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:20:05 +0000

You can use also:
mysql> use database;
mysql> truncate tablename;
to empty a table!

By: OnkelBeh

OnkelBeh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:10:57 +0000

What about :
mysqldump -u[user] -p[ssht...] --add-drop-table --no-data [DATABASE] | grep ^DROP | mysql -u[user] -p[sshht...] [DATABASE]

By: Mas

Mas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:14:14 +0000

Great post and you do not need create database privileges for this. The method is only dropping the tables and not the database. The user should have create tables under the database..

Thanks

By: google pagerank

google pagerank — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:41:28 +0000

Really informative post..thanks..:)

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:22:49 +0000

Unfortunately this is no use if you don’t have permissions for create database (like the situation i am currently in).

By: romina

romina — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:41:56 +0000

You can have the drop privilege, but not the create database one!!

BE CAREFUL WHEN DOING THIS! You might end up with no DB at all.

Please don’t suggest this kind of procedures without explaining the whole nine yards.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:25:27 +0000

Alternative methods:

In PHPMyAdmin, you can check all tables and then choose with selected: drop.

If you are doing it with scripting, You can use SHOW TABLES to list the tables, and use this to generate a query DROP TABLE [tablename],[tablename]…