diff --git a/ddl/column.go b/ddl/column.go
index 68d3005ae836a..3137af944e93f 100644
--- a/ddl/column.go
+++ b/ddl/column.go
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ func (w *worker) onModifyColumn(t *meta.Meta, job *model.Job) (ver int64, _ erro
 
 // doModifyColumn updates the column information and reorders all columns.
 func (w *worker) doModifyColumn(t *meta.Meta, job *model.Job, newCol *model.ColumnInfo, oldName *model.CIStr, pos *ast.ColumnPosition, modifyColumnTp byte) (ver int64, _ error) {
-	dbInfo, err := t.GetDatabase(job.SchemaID)
+	dbInfo, err := checkSchemaExistAndCancelNotExistJob(t, job)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ver, errors.Trace(err)
 	}
diff --git a/ddl/db_change_test.go b/ddl/db_change_test.go
index 3f3cd1fba7869..f7284968484e2 100644
--- a/ddl/db_change_test.go
+++ b/ddl/db_change_test.go
@@ -882,6 +882,19 @@ func (s *testStateChangeSuite) TestParallelCreateAndRename(c *C) {
 	s.testControlParallelExecSQL(c, sql1, sql2, f)
 }
 
+func (s *testStateChangeSuite) TestParallelAlterAndDropSchema(c *C) {
+	_, err := s.se.Execute(context.Background(), "create database db_drop_db")
+	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
+	sql1 := "DROP SCHEMA db_drop_db"
+	sql2 := "ALTER SCHEMA db_drop_db CHARSET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci"
+	f := func(c *C, err1, err2 error) {
+		c.Assert(err1, IsNil)
+		c.Assert(err2, NotNil)
+		c.Assert(err2.Error(), Equals, "[schema:1008]Can't drop database ''; database doesn't exist")
+	}
+	s.testControlParallelExecSQL(c, sql1, sql2, f)
+}
+
 type checkRet func(c *C, err1, err2 error)
 
 func (s *testStateChangeSuiteBase) prepareTestControlParallelExecSQL(c *C) (session.Session, session.Session, chan struct{}, ddl.Callback) {
diff --git a/ddl/index.go b/ddl/index.go
index 0f63c1403db9b..2c9d16808e8b1 100755
--- a/ddl/index.go
+++ b/ddl/index.go
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ func checkPrimaryKeyNotNull(w *worker, sqlMode mysql.SQLMode, t *meta.Meta, job
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 
-	dbInfo, err := t.GetDatabase(job.SchemaID)
+	dbInfo, err := checkSchemaExistAndCancelNotExistJob(t, job)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/ddl/schema.go b/ddl/schema.go
index 6349edff917f5..88d91a7ceb01c 100644
--- a/ddl/schema.go
+++ b/ddl/schema.go
@@ -116,9 +116,8 @@ func onModifySchemaCharsetAndCollate(t *meta.Meta, job *model.Job) (ver int64, _
 		return ver, errors.Trace(err)
 	}
 
-	dbInfo, err := t.GetDatabase(job.SchemaID)
+	dbInfo, err := checkSchemaExistAndCancelNotExistJob(t, job)
 	if err != nil {
-		job.State = model.JobStateCancelled
 		return ver, errors.Trace(err)
 	}