Drop foreign key only if it exists

Question

I\'m on a MySQL database.

I\'m doing this, but it doesn\'t work.

ALTER TABLE `object` DROP FOREIGN KEY IF EXISTS `object_ibfk_1`;

I\'ve

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IF (OBJECT_ID('FK_ConstraintName', 'F') IS NOT NULL)

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