Getting Started with MariaDB

Creating, altering, and dropping tables

Now that we know a little about how data is structured in a database, we can learn more about creating our own tables, making changes to them, and even how to delete them.

Using CREATE TABLE

We use the CREATE TABLE command to create tables. For a basic database for an online store, we might have tables for customers, products, orders, product reviews, customer addresses, and more. We can create as many tables as we need, but as mentioned previously, we should give the design some thought so that we don't store duplicate or unused data. That said, don't worry about this too much, as we can always make changes later with the ALTER TABLE command (see the Using ALTER TABLE section later in this chapter).

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