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Asked: 2026-05-20T06:23:58+00:00

I had a database with nearly 500 tables and I want to delete all

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I had a database with nearly 500 tables and I want to delete all the records of all the tables. How to achieve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The simplest way is to drop and recreate the database structure using these shell commands:

    mysqldump -d dbname > structure.sql
mysqladmin drop dbname
mysqladmin create dbname
mysql dbname < structure.sql

    Insert mysql credentials as required, eg -u root -psecret -h localhost

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