> But you can do DROP table1; DROP table2; DROP table3; etc..

You can do even better:
drop table table1, table2, table3;

:)

Best regards,
Mikhail.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arne K. Haaje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: dropping multiple tables with one command question


> fredag 02. januar 2004, 12:11, skrev Egor Egorov:
> > tom poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What's the command for dropping multiple tables?
> > >
> > > Example:
> > > 12 tables that all start with:
> > > phpbb_
> > >
> > > What?  Well, the install isn't going as planned.  I am having to
> > > reinstall as I try to work out script path (I think) or some other
piece
> > > of info that isn't entered correctly, yet.
> > >
> > > Anyway, DROP TABLE tablename;  is one table.  I want to drop all the
> > > tables without typing them, but using DROP TABLE phpbb*; doesn't work.
> >
> > You can't use wildcards in the DROP TABLE command.
>
> But you can do DROP table1; DROP table2; DROP table3; etc..
>
> Arne
>
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