Query to delete database in MySQL

You would need special privileges to create or to delete a MySQL database. So, assuming you have access to the root user, you can create any database using the mysql mysqladmin binary.

Be careful while deleting any database because you will lose your all the data available in your database.

Here is an example to delete a database(TUTORIALS) created in the previous chapter −

[root@host]# mysqladmin -u root -p drop TUTORIALS Enter password:******

This will give you a warning and it will confirm if you really want to delete this database or not.

Dropping the database is potentially a very bad thing to do. Any data stored in the database will be destroyed. Do you really want to drop the 'TUTORIALS' database [y/N] y Database "TUTORIALS" dropped

Drop Database using PHP Script

PHP uses mysql_query function to create or delete a MySQL database. This function takes two parameters and returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Syntax

bool mysql_query( sql, connection );

Example

Try the following example to delete a database −

WARNING − While deleting a database using the PHP script, it does not prompt you for any confirmation. So be careful while deleting a MySQL database.

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