Before You Create a Database

Perform prerequisite actions before creating a database using SQL statements.

In order to create a database using SQL statements, you must:

Start the database server
Start dbisql

To create a database in dbisql, you need to connect to an existing database, or else start the utility database, a phantom database with no database files and no data.

Note: If the server is started with the -m server option, you cannot create a database.