Mysql Rename Multiple tables with a pattern

Question

I know how to run

RENAME TABLE onetable_test TO onetable;

But is there a method to rename many tables with a pattern and don\'t write a lot of

Answer 1

A slight modification on @ravnur's answer:

SET group_concat_max_len=5000;
SELECT group_concat(v.name separator '; ')
FROM (
    SELECT concat('RENAME TABLE ', t.table_name, ' TO ', replace(t.table_name, 'wp_', 'blog_')) name
    FROM information_schema.tables t
    WHERE table_name like 'wp_%'
) v;

Useful when you want to rename your Wordpress tables from the default prefix of wp_ to blog_ (for example). Copy and paste the output of that command into the mysql shell or phpMyAdmin.