MySQL DROP all tables, ignoring foreign keys

Question

Is there a nice easy way to drop all tables from a MySQL database, ignoring any foreign key constraints that may be in there?

Answer 1

You can do:

select concat('drop table if exists ', table_name, ' cascade;')
  from information_schema.tables;

Then run the generated queries. They will drop every single table on the current database.

Here is some help on drop table command.