Hi Gary, If you are running unix (or variants thereof), you can go to the data directory and remove it at the operating system level if the mysql client can't do it. Not sure about windows though but I would think the same thing would apply.
If you do that and then do a show databases, it should be gone. Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 148 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 - Work +61 417 268 665 - Mobile +61 8 8408 4259 - Fax -----Original Message----- From: Gary Huntress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 August 2005 9:09 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: cannot drop database I need to drop a database named ÃáãÃáà using the mysql client. I'm getting "you have an error in your sql syntax" for the command DROP database ÃáãÃáÃ; I'm sure this is a character set issue. How can I drop this database? Regards, Gary H. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
