eolas/Databases/SQL/Create_an_SQL_table.md

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Databases Programming Languages	SQL relational-databases

Create an SQL table

We create tables in an SQL database with the CREATE command.

Below is an example of this in practice. Each field corresponds to a column. We specify the name of the field and its corresponding data type. Every table must have a primary key. In the example, employee_id is the primary key.

CREATE TABLE employee (
    employee_id text PRIMARY KEY,
    first_name text,
    surname text,
    address_number integer,
    address_1 text,
    address_2 text,
    locality text,
    region text,
    postal_code text,
    phone_number text,
    days_per_week real
    );

Check table metadata

We can use DESCRIBE [table_name] any time we want to list out the data types and other metadata about the table.

We can use SHOW TABLE STATUS/