sql-statement-drop-stats.md

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DROP STATS	An overview of the usage of DROP STATS for the TiDB database.

DROP STATS

The DROP STATS statement is used to delete the statistics of the selected table from the selected database.

Synopsis

DropStatsStmt ::=
    'DROP' 'STATS' TableName

TableName ::=
    Identifier ('.' Identifier)?

Examples

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CREATE TABLE t(a INT);

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

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SHOW STATS_META WHERE db_name='test' and table_name='t';

+---------+------------+----------------+---------------------+--------------+-----------+
| Db_name | Table_name | Partition_name | Update_time         | Modify_count | Row_count |
+---------+------------+----------------+---------------------+--------------+-----------+
| test    | t          |                | 2020-05-25 20:34:33 |            0 |         0 |
+---------+------------+----------------+---------------------+--------------+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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DROP STATS t;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

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SHOW STATS_META WHERE db_name='test' and table_name='t';

Empty set (0.00 sec)

MySQL compatibility

This statement is a TiDB extension to MySQL syntax.

See also

• Introduction to Statistics