Drop all tables command

Question

What is the command to drop all tables in SQLite?

Similarly I\'d like to drop all indexes.

Answer 1

While it is true that there is no DROP ALL TABLES command you can use the following set of commands.

Note: These commands have the potential to corrupt your database, so make sure you have a backup

PRAGMA writable_schema = 1;
delete from sqlite_master where type in ('table', 'index', 'trigger');
PRAGMA writable_schema = 0;

you then want to recover the deleted space with

VACUUM;

and a good test to make sure everything is ok

PRAGMA INTEGRITY_CHECK;