https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-Drop-Hive-Database-with-Tables-in-it/m-p/185267#M147374 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/5019/ssubhas.html" nodeid="5019">@Sindhu</A> Yes, idea is to drop the database and all tables within and to remove the db directory from HDFS too. </P> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 02:23:07 GMT dhirajk 2017-07-19T02:23:07Z