title: How to drop and re-populate mysql databases?
body: <p>I have a mysql database with 10 tables and need to drop and repopulate the database to run some performance tests. Using mysqldump, I can dump out the data.
  What steps should I follow next, to clear the database, and re-import? Will need to run this for different sizes of the database (i.e. tables with different number of rows) to calculate the db performance, so I need to make sure these steps can be replicated.</p>