SQL Server - CREATE DATABASE

The SQL Server (Transact-SQL) CREATE DATABASE statement is used to create a new SQL Server database.

Syntax

The syntax of using CREATE DATABASE statement in SQL Server (Transact-SQL) is given below:

CREATE DATABASE DatabaseName;

Please note that to create any database, appropriate privilege is required. Along with this, the database name should be unique within the RDBMS. After creating the database, the following statement can be used to see the list of databases available in RDBMS.

SELECT name FROM sys.databases;

Example: create a database

To create a database with name testDB, the following statement can be used:

CREATE DATABASE testDB;

After creating the database, the below mentioned statement can be used to see the list of databases available in RDBMS.

SELECT name FROM sys.databases;    

This will produce the result which will be similar to:

name        
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SQLExample1 
SQLExample2 
SQLExample3 
SQLExample4 
SQLExample5 
SQLExample6 
SQLExample7 
SQLExample8 
testDB