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:
Example 1: Program to demonstrate drop if exists. We will try to drop a table which does not exist in the above database.
# Python program to demonstrate# drop clause import mysql.connector # Connecting to the Databasemydb = mysql.connector.connect( host ='localhost', database ='College', user ='root',) cs = mydb.cursor() # drop clausestatement = "Drop Table if exists Employee" # Uncommenting statement ="DROP TABLE employee"# Will raise an error as the table employee# does not exists cs.execute(statement) # Disconnecting from the databasemydb.close() |
Output:
Example 2: Program to drop table Geeks
# Python program to demonstrate# drop clause import mysql.connector # Connecting to the Databasemydb = mysql.connector.connect( host ='localhost', database ='College', user ='root',) cs = mydb.cursor() # drop clausestatement ="DROP TABLE Geeks" cs.execute(statement) # Disconnecting from the databasemydb.close() |
Output:
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