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| <h1 class="title">DROP TABLE</h1> |
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| <h3 id="description">Description</h3> |
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| <p><code class="highlighter-rouge">DROP TABLE</code> deletes the table and removes the directory associated with the table from the file system |
| if the table is not <code class="highlighter-rouge">EXTERNAL</code> table. If the table is not present it throws an exception.</p> |
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| <p>In case of an external table, only the associated metadata information is removed from the metastore database.</p> |
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| <h3 id="syntax">Syntax</h3> |
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| <div class="language-sql highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="k">DROP</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="n">IF</span> <span class="k">EXISTS</span> <span class="p">]</span> <span class="n">table_identifier</span> |
| </code></pre></div></div> |
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| <p><strong>IF EXISTS</strong></p> |
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| <p>If specified, no exception is thrown when the table does not exist.</p> |
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| <p><strong>table_identifier</strong></p> |
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| <p>Specifies the table name to be dropped. The table name may be optionally qualified with a database name.</p> |
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| <p><strong>Syntax:</strong> <code class="highlighter-rouge">[ database_name. ] table_name</code></p> |
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| <h3 id="examples">Examples</h3> |
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| <div class="language-sql highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="c1">-- Assumes a table named `employeetable` exists.</span> |
| <span class="k">DROP</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">employeetable</span><span class="p">;</span> |
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| <span class="c1">-- Assumes a table named `employeetable` exists in the `userdb` database</span> |
| <span class="k">DROP</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">userdb</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">employeetable</span><span class="p">;</span> |
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| <span class="c1">-- Assumes a table named `employeetable` does not exist.</span> |
| <span class="c1">-- Throws exception</span> |
| <span class="k">DROP</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">employeetable</span><span class="p">;</span> |
| <span class="n">Error</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">org</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">spark</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="k">sql</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">AnalysisException</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="k">Table</span> <span class="k">or</span> <span class="k">view</span> <span class="k">not</span> <span class="k">found</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">employeetable</span><span class="p">;</span> |
| <span class="p">(</span><span class="k">state</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">code</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span> |
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| <span class="c1">-- Assumes a table named `employeetable` does not exist,Try with IF EXISTS</span> |
| <span class="c1">-- this time it will not throw exception</span> |
| <span class="k">DROP</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">IF</span> <span class="k">EXISTS</span> <span class="n">employeetable</span><span class="p">;</span> |
| </code></pre></div></div> |
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