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A connector is employed when we have to use MySQL with other programming languages. The work of MySQL-connector is to provide access to MySQL Driver to the required language. Thus, it generates a connection between the programming language and the MySQL Server.

Drop Table Command

Drop command affects the structure of the table and not data. It is used to delete an already existing table. For cases where you are not sure if the table to be dropped exists or not DROP TABLE IF EXISTS command is used. Both cases will be dealt with in the following examples. Syntax:

DROP TABLE tablename;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS tablename;

The following programs will help you understand this better. Tables before drop: python-mysql-drop Example 1: Program to demonstrate drop if exists. We will try to drop a table which does not exist in the above database. 

Python3




# Python program to demonstrate
# drop clause
 
 
import mysql.connector
 
# Connecting to the Database
mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
  host ='localhost',
  database ='College',
  user ='root',
)
 
cs = mydb.cursor()
 
# drop clause
statement = "Drop Table if exists Employee"
 
# Uncommenting statement ="DROP TABLE employee"
# Will raise an error as the table employee
# does not exists
 
cs.execute(statement)
cs.commit()
     
# Disconnecting from the database
mydb.close()


Output: python-mysql-drop-1 Example 2: Program to drop table Geeks 

Python3




# Python program to demonstrate
# drop clause
 
 
import mysql.connector
 
# Connecting to the Database
mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
  host ='localhost',
  database ='College',
  user ='root',
)
 
cs = mydb.cursor()
 
# drop clause
statement ="DROP TABLE Geeks"
 
cs.execute(statement)
cs.commit()
     
# Disconnecting from the database
mydb.close()


Output: python-mysql-drop-2



Last Updated : 28 Feb, 2023
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