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.SH "NAME"
ndb_drop_table \- drop an NDB table
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBndb_drop_table\ \fR\fB\fIoptions\fR\fR\ 'u
\fBndb_drop_table \fR\fB\fIoptions\fR\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBndb_drop_table\fR
drops the specified
NDB
table\&. (If you try to use this on a table created with a storage engine other than
NDB, the attempt fails with the error
723: No such table exists\&.) This operation is extremely fast; in some cases, it can be an order of magnitude faster than using a MySQL
DROP TABLE
statement on an
NDB
table\&.
Usage
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ndb_drop_table \-c \fIconnection_string\fR \fItbl_name\fR \-d \fIdb_name\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
The following table includes options that are specific to
\fBndb_drop_table\fR\&. Additional descriptions follow the table\&. For options common to most NDB Cluster programs (including
\fBndb_drop_table\fR), see
Options Common to NDB Cluster Programs(1)\&.
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.B Table\ \&22.334.\ \&Command\-line options for the ndb_drop_table program
.TS
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Format
T}:T{
Description
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Added, Deprecated, or Removed
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.PP
--database=dbname,
.PP
-d
T}:T{
Name of the database in which the table is found
T}:T{
.PP
All NDB 8.0 releases
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.PP
Prior to NDB 8\&.0\&.17, an
NDB
table dropped using this utility persisted in the MySQL data dictionary but could not be dropped using
DROP TABLE
in the
\fBmysql\fR
client\&. In NDB 8\&.0\&.17 and later, such
\(lqorphan\(rq
tables can be dropped using
DROP TABLE\&. (Bug #29125206, Bug #93672)
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.br
.PP
Copyright \(co 1997, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
.PP
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
.PP
This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
.PP
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual,
which may already be installed locally and which is also available
online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
.SH AUTHOR
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).