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

This solution is based on @SkyLeach answer but with the support of dropping tables with foreign keys.

echo "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;" > ./drop_all_tables.sql
mysqldump --add-drop-table --no-data -u user -p dbname | grep 'DROP TABLE' >> ./drop_all_tables.sql
echo "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;" >> ./drop_all_tables.sql
mysql -u user -p dbname < ./drop_all_tables.sql