CREATE DATABASE

Description

Create a database.

Syntax

1. > CREATE DATABASE [IF NOT EXISTS] <database_name> [create_option] ...

3. > create_option: [DEFAULT] {
4. CHARACTER SET [=] charset_name
5. | COLLATE [=] collation_name
6. | ENCRYPTION [=] {'Y' | 'N'}
7. }

Examples

1. CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS test01;

Expected Result

You can use SHOW DATABASES to check if the databases have been created.

1. mysql> show databases;
2. +--------------------+
3. | Database           |
4. +--------------------+
5. | mo_task            |
6. | information_schema |
7. | mysql              |
8. | system_metrics     |
9. | system             |
10. | test01             |
11. | mo_catalog         |
12. +--------------------+
13. 10 rows in set (0.01 sec)

You can see that the new database test01 has been created in addition to the six system databases.

Constraints

• Only UTF-8 CHARACTER SET is supported for now.
• CHARACTER SET, COLLATE, ENCRYPTION can be used but don’t work.