You can drop a database from the command line. Make sure you have an access for dropping a database. Be careful while deleting any database, because you will lose all the data from your database.
Below command will drop an database using command line.
[root@host]# mysqladmin -u root -p drop EMPLOYEE Enter password:****** (If you haven’t set any password, keep it bank, otherwise you should have to enter password)
Once you execute the above command, it will show one warning and it will confirm you want to delete that database or not?
Do you really want to drop the EMPLOYEE database [y/N] y (Once you press y then it will delete selected database. Once you press n then it will back and will not deleted your database.)
Database "EMPLOYEE" dropped
