JDBC Tutorial - JDBC Drop Database

The following code shows how to drop a database.

It issues the following SQL command to do the drop action.

DROP DATABASE STUDENTS

Example

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Statement;
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public class Main {
  static final String JDBC_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
  static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/";

  static final String USER = "username";
  static final String PASS = "password";

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Connection conn = null;
    Statement stmt = null;

    Class.forName(JDBC_DRIVER);
    conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL, USER, PASS);
    System.out.println("Deleting database...");
    stmt = conn.createStatement();

    String sql = "DROP DATABASE STUDENTS";
    stmt.executeUpdate(sql);

    stmt.close();
    conn.close();
  }
}