This statement removes one or more groups in a secured database.

Only the Master user can perform this statement. Separate multiple group names with a comma. A group must be empty to be dropped.

Security must be turned on to perform this statement.

The expression IF EXISTS causes the statement to return success instead of an error if a group does not exist. IF EXISTS does not suppress other errors.

The following example drops the group zengroup.

The following example uses a list to drop groups.