Creating a database using MySQL Workbench is fairly straightforward. Simply go through the following steps:
- Open MySQL Workbench.
- Connect to your local instance or a dev/test instance. Don't perform any of these steps on a live production server. Connecting to a MySQL instance is covered in more detail in Chapter 2, Installing and Using MySQL Workbench.
- Click the button for creating a new schema, which is highlighted in the following screenshot. The word schema is synonymous with database in MySQL:
In Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server, 'schema' is not synonymous with 'database', and ...