From the course: Database Foundations: Intro to Databases

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Create a database

Create a database

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Create a database

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- [Instructor] Database servers don't really do anything all by themselves, they just sit there, quietly in the background, waiting for someone to reach out and ask them to do something. Whether that's creating new objects like a table, writing a piece of data to that table, or retrieving stored information, the database server just needs to know what you want to happen. The way that you communicate with an RBDMS server is through text commands written in Structured Query Language. This language is what puts the SQL in SQL Server and PostgreSQL. The SQL language has been in use for over 30 years, ever since it became an ANSI standard in 1986, and all of the relational database platforms make use of this common language. Now, while some GUI client will provide wizards and other tools for walking you through different processes, the most common way to tell the database server what to do is through a query window. If…

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