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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:27:42+00:00

Taking a peek into the information_schema database and peeking at the metadata for one

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Taking a peek into the information_schema database and peeking at the metadata for one of my pet projects, I’m having a hard time understanding what (if any) differences there are between the create schema command and the create database command for MySQL.

Are there any differences? If not, is this a rather typical pattern of behavior for relational databases (I’ve heard that for other databases, such as Oracle, a schema exists in a database, rather than being on the same level as a database).

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  1. Editorial Team

    The documentation of MySQL says :

    CREATE DATABASE creates a database
    with the given name. To use this
    statement, you need the CREATE
    privilege for the database. CREATE
    SCHEMA is a synonym for CREATE
    DATABASE as of MySQL 5.0.2.

    So, it would seem normal that those two instruction do the same.

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