Unfortunately one of the first command everyone needs to use to use to work with cassandra changes very often.
You can use cqlsh> help create_keyspace; But some times even the documentation is not in line. Using this permutation of goodness: cqlsh 2.3.0 | Cassandra 1.2.0-beta2-SNAPSHOT | CQL spec 3.0.0 | Thrift protocol 19.35.0] The syntax is as follows: cqlsh> create keyspace a with replication = {'class':'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor':3}; On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm wondering why the following command to create a keyspace in CQL3 fails. > It is same as the sample in the doc > http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html > > CREATE KEYSPACE demodb > WITH strategy_class = SimpleStrategy > AND strategy_options:replication_factor = 1; > > > I'm using Cassandra1.2-beta2 > >