Question

I am trying to create an innodb database:

mysql> CREATE DATABASE imdb () ENGINE=InnoDB;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that 
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '() 
ENGINE=InnoDB' at line 1

What is wrong with the above command, from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/myisam-storage-engine.html?

Answer 1

Database engine can only be specified for table, not database

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-database.html

So when you create database – you don’t specify it, and when you create a table – you do.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-table.html

PS: on the page you’ve given the link to it is

CREATE TABLE t (i INT) ENGINE = MYISAM;
       ^----- table, not database