Create a database

Main Menu - File - Create database

If you configured the database in user and system databases dialog you can select the database name from the list to obtain all the database info.

Set the server and protocol (if not a local connection), set the database filename, if you are in a local connection you can browse the file with the search button, you can also set the Interbase server version.

The page size affects how information is stored in database and the size in megabyts of every file in the database, it's recommended to generate one file for every 2.000 megabytes. You can add more files after the creation of the database and with database online. To remove files you must shutdown the database.

The file size of the last file is ignored.

The default character is used to determine the character set creating char fields and domains when no character set is specified in the creation, you can use any number of character sets in a database to create table columns.

After de creation, the database will be open.

See also:

Database management index

Database connection samples