MySQL bulk drop table where table like?

Question

DROP TABLE (
SELECT table_name
FROM information_schema.`TABLES`
WHERE table_schema = \'myDatabase\' AND table_name LIKE BINARY \'del%\');

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Answer 1

A minor improvement to @Devart's answer:

SET @tables = NULL;
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(table_schema, '.`', table_name, '`') INTO @tables FROM
(select * from
 information_schema.tables 
  WHERE table_schema = 'myDatabase' AND table_name LIKE 'del%'
  LIMIT 10) TT;

SET @tables = CONCAT('DROP TABLE ', @tables);
select @tables;
PREPARE stmt1 FROM @tables;
EXECUTE stmt1;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt1;

This script should be executed repeatedly until the console's output is NULL

The changes are:

1. backtick (`) wrapping the table name (if it contains non standard characters)
2. added a LIMIT to avoid the truncation issue I commented about
3. added a "print" (select @tables;) to have some kind of control when to stop executing the script