Online Documentation for SQL Manager for MySQL

New Table


Relational databases store all their data in Tables. A table is a data structure consisting of an unordered set of horizontal rows, each containing the same number of vertical columns. The intersection of an individual row and column is a field that contains a specific piece of information. Much of the power of relational databases comes from defining the relations among the tables.

 

Creating Tables

 

To create a new table:

Hint: To create a new table, you can also right-click the Tables node or any object within this node in the DB Explorer tree and select the New Table item from the context menu.

 

Renaming Tables

 

To rename a table:

or

  • simply press Ctrl+R

 

Editing Tables

 

To edit table:

or

 

Dropping Tables

 

To drop table:

  • right-click the table in the DBExplorer and select the Drop Table <table_name> item;

or

  • select the table and press Ctrl+Del.

 

Duplicating table

 

There is a specific wizard for duplicating objects. To copy table use the Duplicate Table <table_name> item from the table context menu. Duplicate object wizard in this case will be opened at the Selecting destination database, as the previous ones provide selecting of source database and object to copy.