I had a client upload a malformed table with a name like foo.bar into an Athena instance. What syntax can I use to drop the table? If I try
drop table if exists `foo.bar`
The command silently fails, presumably because the parser interprets foo as the database name. If I try adding the database name explicitly as
drop table if exists dbname."foo.bar"
or
drop table if exists dbname.`foo.bar`
I get a parse error from Athena.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to the Glue console to remove the table from there so I was wondering if it's possible to drop such a table via Athena SQL. Thanks!