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

I found it useful to add an IFNULL to Devart's solutions to avoid generating an error if there are no tables matching the query.

SET @tables = IFNULL(CONCAT('DROP TABLE ', @tables),'SELECT NULL;');