The DROP TABLE Statement
The DROP TABLE statement is used to drop an existing table in a database.
Note: Be careful before dropping a table. Deleting a table will result in loss of all information stored in the table!
The following SQL statement drops the existing table cars:
Example
DROP TABLE cars;
Result
DROP TABLE
Display Table
To check the result we can display the table with this SQL statement:
Example
SELECT * FROM cars;
Which will result in an error, because the cars table no longer exists:
Result
ERROR: relation "cars" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT * FROM cars;
^
