Apache Derby - Drop Table

The DROP TABLE statement is used to remove an existing table including all its triggers, constraints, permissions.
Following is the Syntax of the DROP TABLE statement.
ij> DROP TABLE table_name;

Suppose you have a table named Student in the database. The following SQL statement deletes a table named Student.
ij> DROP TABLE Student;
0 rows inserted/updated/deleted

Since we have removed the table if we try to describe it, we will get an error as follows
ij> DESCRIBE Student;
IJ ERROR: No table exists with the name STUDENT

This section teaches you how to drop a table in Apache Derby database using JDBC application.
If you want to request the Derby network server using network client, make sure that the server is up and running. The class name for the Network client driver is org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver and the URL is jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/DATABASE_NAME;create=true;user=USER_NAME;passw
ord=PASSWORD"
Follow the steps given below to drop a table in Apache Derby
To communicate with the database, first of all, you need to register the driver. The forName() method of the class Class accepts a String value representing a class name loads it in to the memory, which automatically registers it. Register the driver using this method.
In general, the first step we do to communicate to the database is to connect with it. The Connection class represents the physical connection with a database server. You can create a connection object by invoking the getConnection() method of the DriverManager class. Create a connection using this method.
You need to create a Statement or PreparedStatement or, CallableStatement objects to send SQL statements to the database. You can create these using the methods createStatement(), prepareStatement() and, prepareCall() respectively. Create either of these objects using the appropriate method.
After creating a statement, you need to execute it. The Statement class provides various methods to execute a query like the execute() method to execute a statement that returns more than one result set. The executeUpdate() method execute queries like INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. The executeQuery() method to results that returns data etc. Use either of these methods and execute the statement created previously.

Following JDBC example demonstrates how to drop a table in Apache Derby using JDBC program. Here, we are connecting to a database named sampleDB (will create if it does not exist) using the embedded driver.

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Statement;
public class DropTable {
   public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
      //Registering the driver
      Class.forName("org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver");

      //Getting the Connection object
      String URL = "jdbc:derby:sampleDB;create=true";
      Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(URL);

      //Creating the Statement object
      Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();

      //Executing the query
      String query = "DROP TABLE Employees";
      stmt.execute(query);
      System.out.println("Table dropped");
   }
}
On executing the above program, you will get the following output −
Table dropped


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