# Purpose

Purpose

You can use this statement to drop a table group.

Syntax

DROP TABLEGROUP tablegroup_name;

Parameters

Examples

Drop the tblgroup1 table group that contains a table.

1. Directly drop the tblgroup1 table group. An error is returned.

   obclient> DROP TABLEGROUP tblgroup1;
   ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: -4615, tablegroup is not empty
   

2. View the table group information and remove the tbl1 table from the tblgroup1 table group.

   obclient> SHOW TABLEGROUPS;
   +-----------------------+---------------+---------------------+
   | TABLEGROUP_NAME       | TABLE_NAME    | DATABASE_NAME       |
   +-----------------------+---------------+---------------------+
   | TBLGROUP1             | TBL1          | SYS                 |
   +-----------------------+---------------+---------------------+
   1 rows in set
   
   obclient> ALTER TABLE tbl1 SET TABLEGROUP '';
   Query OK, 0 rows affected
   

3. Drop the tblgroup1 table group.

   obclient> DROP TABLEGROUP tblgroup1;
   Query OK, 0 rows affected