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

That error usually comes when you have wrong TABLESPACE in ibdata1 file (that's for innodb engine) innodb engine store some settings inside ibdata1 file

if you have recently copied / moved your files to other server or tried to restore then you should move ibdata1 file aswell then you can delete the db. I assume you are having issue like table doesn't exist and now deleting db? if yes then stop mysql service then delete files and then create db again, that will help you. Further here this might help you [Error Dropping Database (Can't rmdir '.test\', errno: 17)