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If the administrator creates your database for you when setting up your permissions, you can begin using it. Otherwise, you need to create it yourself:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE menagerie; |
Under Unix, database names are case-sensitive (unlike SQL keywords), so you
must always refer to your database as menagerie
, not as
Menagerie
, MENAGERIE
, or some other variant. This is also true
for table names. (Under Windows, this restriction does not apply, although
you must refer to databases and tables using the same lettercase throughout a
given query.)
Creating a database does not select it for use; you must do that explicitly.
To make menagerie
the current database, use this command:
mysql> USE menagerie Database changed |
Your database needs to be created only once, but you must select it for use
each time you begin a mysql
session. You can do this by issuing a
USE
statement as shown in the example. Alternatively, you can select the
database on the command-line when you invoke mysql
. Just specify its
name after any connection parameters that you might need to provide. For
example:
shell> mysql -h host -u user -p menagerie Enter password: ******** |
Note that menagerie
is not your password on the command just shown.
If you want to supply your password on the command-line after the -p
option, you must do so with no intervening space (for example, as
-pmypassword
, not as -p mypassword
). However, putting your
password on the command-line is not recommended, because doing so exposes it
to snooping by other users logged in on your machine.