Creating or Re-creating a Table
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You can create a table using the Create Table dialog box.
You can also recreate a table in one of two ways
To create a new table:
- Navigate under a connected database. The Explorer displays icons for Tables,
Views, and Procedures.
- Open the Create Table dialog box using either:
- The contextual menu for the Tables
- The contextual menus for an existing table
- Type the table name.
This name must follow conventions for table names in your database. Case
is usually insignificant and you must not use spaces.
- Select the owner of the new table from the possible names of database users.
The dialog box defaults to the name by which you are connected.
- Click either Add Column or Remove to add or remove columns from the table.
- Specify the column type and size. You must specify the column type but size
is optional for some data types.
All other properties are optional.
- Click OK to create the table.
To re-create a table and its structure using a database
snapshot:
- Right-click a table from the table node.
- Choose Grab Structure. This action stores the definition of a selected table
to a file in the file system.
- Type a file name in which to save the structure of the table (the table
definition).
- Right-click the Tables node (or the node of any table under the Tables node)
and choose Recreate Table.
- Select the name of a file from which you want to re-create a table.
- In the following dialog, specify the table name and click OK to re-create
the table. If you want to modify the table definition command click the Edit
table script button and edit the table definition command.
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