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How to use the name of the current database to delete it in MySQL?
To get the current database, you can use the SELECT DATABASE() −
select database();
Following is the syntax −
set @anyVariableName = database(); select @anyVariableName; set @anyVariableName2 = concat('drop database ', @yourVariableName); prepare anyVariableName3 from @yourVariableName2; execute yourVariableName3;
Let us execute the above query in order to get current database and delete it −
mysql> set @currentDatabase = database(); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> select @currentDatabase; +------------------+ | @currentDatabase | +------------------+ | employeeonboard | +------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> set @sqlQuery = concat('drop database ', @currentDatabase); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> prepare stmt from @sqlQuery; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec) Statement prepared mysql> execute stmt; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.56 sec)
In order to check whether the database exists now, use the SELECT DATABASE() −
mysql> select database();
This will produce the following output −
+------------+ | database() | +------------+ | NULL | +------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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