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CREATE TABLE
CREATE TABLE
Syntax
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RELATED STATEMENT
DROP SYNONYM
Creates a table definition. A table definition consists of a set of named column definitions for
data values that will be stored in rows of the table. SQL provides two forms of the CREATE TABLE
statement.
The first syntax form explicitly specifies column definitions. The second syntax form, with the
AS query_expression clause, implicitly defines the columns using the columns in a query
expression.
CREATE TABLE [ owner_name.]table_name
( { column_definition | table_constraint }, ...)
[ AREA area_name ]
[ ENCRYPT WITH cipher ]
[ BUFFER_POOL { PRIMARY | ALTERNATE } ]
[ progress_table_attribute_keyword value ]
;
CREATE TABLE [ owner_name.]table_name
[ (column_name [ NOT NULL] , ... ) ]
[ AREA area_name ]
[ ENCRYPT WITH cipher ]
[BUFFER_POOL { PRIMARY | ALTERNATE } ]
AS query_expression
;
owner_name
Specifies the owner of the table. If the name is different from the user name of the user
executing the statement, then the user must have DBA privileges.
table_name
Names the table you are defining.
column_definition
This is the syntax for column_definition:
Syntax
column_name data_type
[ COLLATE case_insensitive | case_sensitive ]
[ DEFAULT { literal | NULL | SYSDATE | SYSTIME | SYSTIMESTAMP } ]
[ column_constraint [ column_constraint , ... ] ]
[ progress_column_attribute_keyword value
[progress_column_attribute_keyword value ] ...]