Comments on: Drop all tables from a mysql database

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:57:31 +0000

Hi Julian, thanks for the comments!
In my case, the reason why I don’t simply delete the whole database is because I can’t – I only have remote access to this one database, no permission to create or drop databases and no shell access to the server… and the software using the database keeps filling it up will all kinds of strange data and the easiest way to fix it is to delete everything.

By: schlumpf

schlumpf — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:03:23 +0000

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:05:47 +0000

ah, whoops, deleting the Tables, not the Databases… one could copy a virgin database over all files, though… something like will sure work

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:04:40 +0000

Won’t a rm -rf /var/lib/mysql just do, too? maybe exclude the mysql database if you want to keep the users…