Syntax

• CREATE TABLE table_name ( column_name1 data_type(size), column_name2 data_type(size), column_name3 data_type(size), …. ); // Basic table creation
• CREATE TABLE table_name [IF NOT EXISTS] ( column_name1 data_type(size), column_name2 data_type(size), column_name3 data_type(size), …. ); // Table creation checking existing
• CREATE [TEMPORARY] TABLE table_name [IF NOT EXISTS] ( column_name1 data_type(size), column_name2 data_type(size), column_name3 data_type(size), …. ); // Temporary table creation
• CREATE TABLE new_tbl [AS] SELECT * FROM orig_tbl; // Table creation from SELECT

Remarks

The CREATE TABLE statement should end with an ENGINE specification:

CREATE TABLE table_name ( column_definitions ) ENGINE=engine;

Some options are:

• InnoDB: (Default since version 5.5.5) It’s a transation-safe (ACID compliant) engine. It has transaction commit and roll-back, and crash-recovery capabilities and row-level locking.
• MyISAM: (Default before version 5.5.5) It’s a plain-fast engine. It doesn’t support transactions, nor foreign keys, but it’s useful for data-warehousing.
• Memory: Stores all data in RAM for extremely fast operations but table date will be lost on database restart.

More engine options here.