MySQL Create Database

You can create a MySQL database by using MySQL Command Line Client.

Open the MySQL console and write down password, if you set one while installation. You will get the following:

Now you are ready to create database.

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CREATE DATABASE database_name;

Let's take an example to create a database name "employees"

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CREATE DATABASE employees;

It will look like this:

You can check the created database by the following query:

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SHOW DATABASES;

Output

Here, you can see the all created databases.

Note

Note: All the database names, table names and table fields name are case sensitive. You must have to use proper names while giving any SQL command.