using drop table statement in oracle plsql

The DROP TABLE statement in PLSQL allows us to delete or drop a table from the database.

It is a Data Definition Language (DDL) statement.

Syntax for the DROP TABLE statement in PLSQL is:

DROP TABLE table_name;

Let’s take an example for understanding:

Suppose have a table named “Employee” as shown below in database.

Employee_ID	Employee_Name	Salary	Department	Commission
101	Emp A	10000	Sales	10
102	Emp B	20000	IT	20
103	Emp C	28000	IT	20
104	Emp D	30000	Support
105	Emp E	32000	Sales	10

If we want to delete the ’employee’ table from the database we use the DROP TABLE statement as follows:

DROP TABLE employee;

The above statement will delete the table ’employee’ from the database.