how to drop database

Question

i used the following sytanx

drop database filmo; 

and got the following error:

ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem and it seems to be about your mysql user permissions. try doing it by root user if it did work use this command as root to grand drop permission to your user:

grant drop
execute on *.* to 'your-user-name'@'user-ip';