{"id":449,"date":"2017-02-19T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=449"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:42:28","slug":"deleting-database-tables-phpmyadmin","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/deleting-database-tables-phpmyadmin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete a Database Table With phpMyAdmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial, we&#8217;ll show you how\u00a0to delete a database table with phpMyAdmin, we&#8217;ll assume that you&#8217;ve already logged into phpMyAdmin. If you are not logged in just follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-use-phpmyadmin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">steps in\u00a0this tutorial<\/a>\u00a0to login.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> First, we&#8217;ll need to select the database, in this example, we&#8217;ll use the <strong>chemiclo_demo<\/strong>\u00a0database.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> We&#8217;ll see here all the tables within this database listed, click on the &#8220;<strong>Drop<\/strong>&#8221; link next to the table you wish to delete (drop).<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> A confirmation pop-up message will appear, make sure you are deleting the right table and click &#8220;<strong>OK<\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0A message will appear indicating that your table has been dropped and the table is no longer listed in the database&#8217;s list of tables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> We can also delete (drop) specific\u00a0fields from this table by\u00a0clicking the delete icon. In this example, we selected the <strong>test3<\/strong> table and dropped the <strong>junk<\/strong> field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong> A confirmation pop-up message will appear, make sure you are deleting the right field and click &#8220;OK&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial, we&#8217;ll show you how\u00a0to delete a database table with phpMyAdmin, we&#8217;ll assume that you&#8217;ve already logged into phpMyAdmin. If you are not logged in just follow the steps in\u00a0this tutorial\u00a0to login. 1) First, we&#8217;ll need to select the database, in this example, we&#8217;ll use the chemiclo_demo\u00a0database. 2)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[38],"ht-kb-tag":[122,127,50],"class_list":["post-449","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-mysql","ht_kb_tag-database","ht_kb_tag-delete","ht_kb_tag-mysql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/449\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}