How to Create a Database in MySQL

September 27th, 2011 by Pankaj Joshi Leave a reply »

Once MySQL Server setup is done , lets start by creating a database , in our example we will see how to create a MySQL Database

Step 1) Login to MySQL

we will be using user : demo and password as demouser

mysql -u demo -p demouser

Step 2) Now we will be creating a database demo
mysql> create database demo;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Step 3) Checking if the database is created ;

mysql>show databases;

+——————–+
| Database           |
+——————–+
| information_schema |
| demo                                |
| test                                    |
+——————–+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

we can see that the database demo is there in the list . in next post we will see how to create tables in a MySQL.

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