title: Databricks drop a delta table?
body: <p>How can I drop a Delta Table in Databricks? I can't find any information in the docs... maybe the only solution is to delete the files inside the folder 'delta' with the magic command or dbutils:</p>
  
  <pre><code>%fs rm -r delta/mytable?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>For clarification, I put here a very basic example.</p>
  
  <p>Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#create dataframe...
  from pyspark.sql.types import *
  
  cSchema = StructType([StructField("items", StringType())\
                        ,StructField("number", IntegerType())])
  
  test_list = [['furniture', 1], ['games', 3]]
  
  df = spark.createDataFrame(test_list,schema=cSchema)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and save it in a Delta table</p>
  
  <pre><code>df.write.format("delta").mode("overwrite").save("/delta/test_table")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then, if I try to delete it.. it's not possible with drop table or similar action</p>
  
  <pre><code>%SQL
  DROP TABLE 'delta.test_table'
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>neither other options like drop table 'delta/test_table', etc, etc...</p>