How do you programmatically create an empty database?

[Jonathan Lynch]

Thanks, Mark.

I am not talking about a database on a server. I just want to create a
database file on a shared drive. Would I still need to use a shell command
for that?

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> You need to connect to the SQL server using the terminal (i.e. the shell
> function), login as root and execute the command to create the database. It
> is also possible to write a PHP script and have it create the database, if
> you are connecting to a web server. Sometimes you need to do all of this
> over SSH. Depending on your setup, it might be easy or impossible. Perhaps
> we can figure that out if you provide more info.
>
> Since usually you need to do this only once, it is easier to create the
> database manally. Once the database itself has been created, you can create
> all tables and fields by means of a script from RunRev.
>
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>
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 23 nov 2010, at 22:09, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
>
> > I have been looking through the docs, and this does not seem obvious to
> me.
> >
> > I see that opening a nonexistent database using the SQlite driver will
> > create one - but that only applies to SQLite.
> >
> > It would seem that the standard way to do this, would be to use
> > revExecuteSql, but that command requires having a database ID, which
> would
> > mean that the database would need to already exist.
> >
> > I apologize for my complete ignorance of database lore.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > J
>
>
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