DROP TABLE - Amazon Athena
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DROP TABLE

Removes the metadata table definition for the table named table_name. When you drop an external table, the underlying data remains intact.

Synopsis

DROP TABLE [IF EXISTS] table_name

Parameters

[ IF EXISTS ]

Causes the error to be suppressed if table_name doesn't exist.

Examples

DROP TABLE fulfilled_orders
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS fulfilled_orders

When using the Athena console query editor to drop a table that has special characters other than the underscore (_), use backticks, as in the following example.

DROP TABLE `my-athena-database-01.my-athena-table`

When using the JDBC connector to drop a table that has special characters, backtick characters are not required.

DROP TABLE my-athena-database-01.my-athena-table