基于@Dion Truter和@Wade Williams的回答，下面的shell脚本将删除所有表，首先显示它将要运行的内容，并让您有机会使用Ctrl-C中止。

#!/bin/bash

DB_HOST=xxx
DB_USERNAME=xxx
DB_PASSWORD=xxx
DB_NAME=xxx

CMD="mysql -sN -h ${DB_HOST} -u ${DB_USERNAME} -p${DB_PASSWORD} ${DB_NAME}"

# Generate the drop statements
TMPFILE=/tmp/drop-${RANDOM}.sql
echo 'SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;' > ${TMPFILE}
${CMD} $@ >> ${TMPFILE} << ENDD
    SELECT concat('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS \`', table_name, '\`;')
    FROM information_schema.tables
    WHERE table_schema = '${DB_NAME}';
ENDD
echo 'SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;' >> ${TMPFILE}

# Warn what we are about to do
echo
cat ${TMPFILE}
echo
echo "Press ENTER to proceed (or Ctrl-C to abort)."
read

# Run the SQL
echo "Dropping tables..."
${CMD} $@ < ${TMPFILE}
echo "Exit status is ${?}."
rm ${TMPFILE}

上面的每个方法都包含了比这个AFAICT更多的工作…

( mysqldump --add-drop-table --no-data -u root -p database | grep 'DROP TABLE' ) > ./drop_all_tables.sql
mysql -u root -p database < ./drop_all_tables.sql

在php中，它很简单:

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=YOURDB', 'root', 'root');

$pdo->exec('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0');

$query = "SELECT concat('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ', table_name, ';')
          FROM information_schema.tables
          WHERE table_schema = 'YOURDB'";

foreach($pdo->query($query) as $row) {
    $pdo->exec($row[0]);
}

$pdo->exec('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1');

只需要记住将YOURDB更改为数据库的名称，当然还有user/pass。

我使用以下MSSQL服务器:

if (DB_NAME() = 'YOUR_DATABASE') 
begin
    while(exists(select 1 from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS where CONSTRAINT_TYPE='FOREIGN KEY'))
    begin
         declare @sql nvarchar(2000)
         SELECT TOP 1 @sql=('ALTER TABLE ' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '.[' + TABLE_NAME + '] DROP CONSTRAINT [' + CONSTRAINT_NAME + ']')
         FROM information_schema.table_constraints
         WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'FOREIGN KEY'
         exec (@sql)
         PRINT @sql
    end

    while(exists(select 1 from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES))
    begin
         declare @sql2 nvarchar(2000)
         SELECT TOP 1 @sql2=('DROP TABLE ' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '.[' + TABLE_NAME + ']')
         FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
        exec (@sql2)
        PRINT @sql2
    end
end
else
    print('Only run this script on the development server!!!!')

用数据库的名称替换YOUR_DATABASE或删除整个IF语句(我喜欢增加的安全性)。

谷歌主题总是把我带到这个SO问题，所以这里是工作的mysql代码，删除表和视图:

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `drop_all_tables`;

DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE `drop_all_tables`()
BEGIN
    DECLARE _done INT DEFAULT FALSE;
    DECLARE _tableName VARCHAR(255);
    DECLARE _cursor CURSOR FOR
        SELECT table_name
        FROM information_schema.TABLES
        WHERE table_schema = SCHEMA();
    DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET _done = TRUE;

    SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;

    OPEN _cursor;

    REPEAT FETCH _cursor INTO _tableName;

    IF NOT _done THEN
        SET @stmt_sql1 = CONCAT('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ', _tableName);
        SET @stmt_sql2 = CONCAT('DROP VIEW IF EXISTS ', _tableName);

        PREPARE stmt1 FROM @stmt_sql1;
        PREPARE stmt2 FROM @stmt_sql2;

        EXECUTE stmt1;
        EXECUTE stmt2;

        DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt1;
        DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt2;
    END IF;

    UNTIL _done END REPEAT;

    CLOSE _cursor;
    SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;
END$$

DELIMITER ;

call drop_all_tables();

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `drop_all_tables`;

从http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/mysql/drop-mysql-tables-in-any-order-foreign-keys:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
drop table if exists customers;
drop table if exists orders;
drop table if exists order_details;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

(注意，这回答了如何禁用外键检查，以便能够以任意顺序删除表。它没有回答如何为所有现有的表自动生成drop-table语句，并在一个脚本中执行它们。Jean的回答是。)