From the course: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Essential Training
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Create a database - SQL Server Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Essential Training
Create a database
- [Instructor] In this section we're going to talk about creating a database. We can do this either by typing in commands or using the graphical interface. I'll demonstrate both. First for typing in commands, we'll open up a new query in Management Studio, and this is surprisingly easy. We'll use the keyword create, the keyword database and then we just need to provide a name for the database and this can be almost anything. It's not going to affect the functionality, so I'll call mine Demo database. Then I'll click on the red exclamation point for execute, and at the bottom we get a message saying commands completed successfully, so I now have a new database that I just accepted all the defaults. I didn't enter any commands to change any of the default values, so we got a default database. It hasn't come up in object explorer yet, so I'll go to databases, I'll right-click and go to refresh, and now we see Demo database…
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