Python MySQL Create Table

To create a table in MySQL, use the "CREATE TABLE" statement. Make sure you define the name of the database when you create the connection

Create a table named "customers":

host="localhost", user=" yourusername ", password=" yourpassword ", database="mydatabase" )

mycursor.execute("CREATE TABLE customers (name VARCHAR(255), address VARCHAR(255))") If the above code was executed with no errors, you have now successfully created a table.

You can check if a table exist by listing all tables in your database with the "SHOW TABLES" statement:

Return a list of your system's databases:

host="localhost", user=" yourusername ", password=" yourpassword ", database="mydatabase" )

mycursor.execute("SHOW TABLES") for x in mycursor:

When creating a table, you should also create a column with a unique key for each record. This can be done by defining a PRIMARY KEY. We use the statement "INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY" which will insert a unique number for each record. Starting at 1, and increased by one for each record.

Create primary key when creating the table:

host="localhost", user=" yourusername ", password=" yourpassword ", database="mydatabase" )

mycursor.execute("CREATE TABLE customers (id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(255), address VARCHAR(255))") If the table already exists, use the ALTER TABLE keyword:

Create primary key on an existing table:

host="localhost", user=" yourusername ", password=" yourpassword ", database="mydatabase" )