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

If in linux (or any other system that support piping, echo and grep) you can do it with one line:

echo "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;" > temp.txt; \
mysqldump -u[USER] -p[PASSWORD] --add-drop-table --no-data [DATABASE] | grep ^DROP >> temp.txt; \
echo "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;" >> temp.txt; \
mysql -u[USER] -p[PASSWORD] [DATABASE] < temp.txt;

I know this is an old question, but I think this method is fast and simple.