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  • Committer: Stewart Smith
  • Date: 2010-02-15 03:55:09 UTC
  • mto: (1273.13.96 build)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 1308.
  • Revision ID: stewart@flamingspork.com-20100215035509-y6sry4q4yymph2by
move SUBSTR, SUBSTRING and SUBSTR_INDEX to plugins. add parser hooks for substr being a plugin now.

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CREATE TABLE
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A CREATE statement in SQL creates an object inside of Drizzle. One of the most common CREATE command is the CREATE TABLE command.
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CREATE [TEMPORARY] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] table_name
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    (create_definition, ...)
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    [engine_options]
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    or:
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CREATE [TEMPORARY] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] table_name
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    [(create_definition, ...)]
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    [engine_options]
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    select_statement
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    or:
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CREATE [TEMPORARY] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] table_name
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    LIKE different_table_name
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    [engine_options]
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create_definition:
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    column_name column_definition
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  | [CONSTRAINT [symbol] ] PRIMARY KEY [index_type]
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    (index_column_name, ...)
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  | INDEX [index_name] (index_column_name, ...)
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    (index_column_name, ...)
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  | [CONSTRAINT [symbol] ] UNIQUE [INDEX]
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    (index_column_name, ...)
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  | [CONSTRAINT [symbol] ] FOREIGN KEY [index_name] (index_column_name, ...)
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    reference_definition
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  | CHECK (expr)
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column_definition:
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  data_type [NOT NULL | NULL] [DEFAULT default_value]
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    [AUTO_INCREMENT] [UNIQUE [KEY] | [PRIMARY] KEY]
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    [COMMENT 'string']
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    [reference_definition]
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data_type:
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  | INTEGER
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  | BIGINT
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  | DOUBLE[(length, decimals)]
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  | DECIMAL[(length[,decimals])]
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  | DATE
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  | TIMESTAMP
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  | DATETIME
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  | VARCHAR(length) [COLLATE collation_name]
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  | VARBINARY(length)
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  | BLOB
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  | TEXT [BINARY] [COLLATE collation_name]
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  | ENUM(value1, value2, value3, ...) [COLLATE collation_name]
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reference_option:
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  RESTRICT | CASCADE | SET NULL | NO ACTION
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engine_options:
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    engine_option [[,] engine_option] ...
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engine_option:
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  ENGINE = engine_name
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  { engine_specific }