Delete all tables from sqlite database
delete database instead of deleting tables and then create new with same name if you need. use following code
context.deleteDatabase(DATABASE_NAME);
or
context.deleteDatabase(path);
Use DROP TABLE
:
// query to obtain the names of all tables in your database
Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table'", null);
List<String> tables = new ArrayList<>();
// iterate over the result set, adding every table name to a list
while (c.moveToNext()) {
tables.add(c.getString(0));
}
// call DROP TABLE on every table name
for (String table : tables) {
String dropQuery = "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + table;
db.execSQL(dropQuery);
}
Tim Biegeleisen's answer almost worked for me, but because I used AUTOINCREMENT
primary keys in my tables, there was a table called sqlite_sequence
. SQLite would crash when the routine tried to drop that table. I couldn't catch the exception either. Looking at https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#internal_schema_objects, I learned that there could be several of these internal schema tables that I shouldn't drop. The documentation says that any of these tables have names beginning with sqlite_ so I wrote this method
private void dropAllUserTables(SQLiteDatabase db) {
Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table'", null);
//noinspection TryFinallyCanBeTryWithResources not available with API < 19
try {
List<String> tables = new ArrayList<>(cursor.getCount());
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
tables.add(cursor.getString(0));
}
for (String table : tables) {
if (table.startsWith("sqlite_")) {
continue;
}
db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + table);
Log.v(LOG_TAG, "Dropped table " + table);
}
} finally {
cursor.close();
}
}