Drop multiple tables in one shot in MySQL

Question

How to drop multiple tables from one single database at one command. something like,

> use test; 
> drop table a,b,c;

where a,b,c are the tables from database test.

Answer 1

We can use the following syntax to drop multiple tables:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS B,C,A;

This can be placed in the beginning of the script instead of individually dropping each table.