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Syntax

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Reference and syntax for the DROP TABLE command.

DROP TABLE

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Discover how the decoupled compute and storage architecture of the Firebolt data warehouse enables sub-second query performance on terabyte-scale data sets.

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Use this reference to learn about the metadata available about privileges using the information schema.

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Storage Metering History

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Tables

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Users

Use this reference to learn about the metadata available for Firebolt views using the information schema.

Parameter	Description
`<table_name>`	The name of the table to be deleted. For external tables, the definition is removed from Firebolt but not from the source.
`CASCADE`	When specified, causes all dependent database objects such as views and aggregating indexes to be dropped also.

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DROP TABLE

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