Delete All MySQL Tables: Quick Guide

To delete all tables in a MySQL database, you can achieve this by following these steps:

1. Access your MySQL database by using the appropriate tool, such as command line or phpMyAdmin.
2. Choose the database to work with: Before deleting all tables in a database, make sure you have selected the correct database. You can use the following command to select a specific database:
3. Switch to your database.
4. To obtain all table names: Run the following SQL query to retrieve the names of all tables in the database:
5. Display the tables.
6. Delete each table: Remove each table one by one based on the list of table names retrieved in the previous step. You can use the following SQL statement to delete a single table:
7. Delete the table with the name “table_name”.
8. Repeating the deletion steps: Repeat the above steps for each table until all tables in the database have been deleted.
9. Validation: You can run SHOW TABLES again to confirm that there are no longer any tables in the database.

Please be sure to backup your data before performing this operation, as deleting all tables will result in data loss. Additionally, only users with sufficient permissions can delete tables.