================================================ SEARCHDATABASE.COM'S Database Developer Tip August 29, 2001 ================================================ Welcome to the searchDatabase.com Database Developer Tip newsletter! Today's tip, "Creating a SQL Server database" can also be viewed online at: http://www.searchDatabase.com/tip/1,289483,sid13_gci764004,00.html Don't forget about our collection of over 200 DBA, developer, Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server tips FREE to searchDatabase members: http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tips/0,289484,sid13_tax281808,00.html ******** Sponsored by Lumigent *********** "Eat Your Spinach!" Mom taught you many good habits. If she was a DBA she would have given you a few more tips, like "use Log Explorer to find and fix user errors" and "don't recover from a backup, use Log Explorer to recover column, row or table data selectively and in real time." 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For this reason we will not cover the creation of a database through the wizard. * Using the UI in Enterprise Manager to create a database. This is done by selecting the New Database option from the pop-up menu when you right-click the database folder within Enterprise Manager. This is the most common way of creating a database in SQL Server 2000, probably because of the friendly user interface you are provided. We will initially create our application database with this method. * Enter the CREATE DATABASE Transact-SQL statement directly into Query Analyzer. This is by far the most difficult to remember (I always have trouble remembering the exact syntax), but it gives you the most flexibility and is probably the preferred way for most DBAs. The reason? The knowledge is cross-transferable. Even if you move to another database management system (heaven forbid), you will know the basic structure of the statement. 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