SQL, creating a table
How to create a table in a SQL database
A database is composed by one or more tables.
Creating a table in SQL is done using the CREATE TABLE
command.
At creation time you need to specify the table columns names, and the type of data they are going to hold.
SQL defines several kinds of data.
The most important and the ones you’ll see more often are:
CHAR
TEXT
VARCHAR
DATE
TIME
DATETIME
TIMESTAMP
Numeric types include
TINYINT
1 byteINT
4 bytesBIGINT
8 bytesSMALLINT
2 bytesDECIMAL
FLOAT
They all hold numbers. What changes is the size that this number can be.
A TINYINT goes goes 0 to 255. An INT from -2^31 to +2^31.
The bigger the size in bytes, the more space will be needed in storage.
This is the syntax to create a people
table with 2 columns, one an integer and the other a variable length string:
CREATE TABLE people (
age INT,
name CHAR(20)
);
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