Why can't I drop a table on MYsql?

Question

Here is the code:

USE new_schema;
DROP TABLE account;
ALTER TABLE transaction
DROP FOREIGN KEY fk_t_account_id;

the error:

09:10:05 DROP TABLE account Error Code: 3730. Cannot drop table 'account' referenced by a foreign key constraint 'fk_t_account_id' on table 'transaction'. 0.000 sec

Answer 1

Looks at the foreign key. That table also needs to be dropped or remove the foreign key constraint

Just switch the order of the SQL

USE new_schema;

ALTER TABLE transaction
DROP FOREIGN KEY fk_t_account_id;

DROP TABLE account;