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MySQL Tutorial - CREATE TABLE Statement

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How To Create a New Table?

If you want to create a new table, you can use the "CREATE TABLE" statement. The following tutorial script shows you how to create a table called "tip":

mysql> CREATE TABLE tip (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
   subject VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL,
   description VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL,
   create_date DATE NULL);
   
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.08 sec)

This scripts creates a testing table called "tip" with 4 columns in the current database.

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1. What Are DDL Statements?
2. How To Create a New Table?
3. What Happens If You No CREATE Privilege in a Database?
4. How To Get a List of All Tables in a Database?
5. How To Get a List of Columns in an Existing Table?
6. How To See the CREATE TABLE Statement of an Existing Table?
7. How To Create a New Table by Selecting Rows from Another Table?
8. How To Add a New Column to an Existing Table?
9. How To Delete an Existing Column in a Table?
10. How To Rename an Existing Column in a Table?
11. How To Rename an Existing Table?
12. How To Drop an Existing Table?
13. How To Create an Index for a Given Table?
14. How To Get a List of Indexes of a Given Table?
15. How To Drop an Existing Index?
16. How To Create a New View?
17. How To Drop an Existing View?