CREATE SCHEMA SQL Syntax Elements | Data Definition Language | Teradata Database - CREATE storage_format SCHEMA Syntax Elements - Teradata Database
SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples
- Deployment
- VantageCloud
- VantageCore
- Edition
- VMware
- Enterprise
- IntelliFlex
- Product
- Teradata Database
- Release Number
- 20.00
- Publication Date
- June 2025
- Content Type
- SQL Reference
- Publication ID
- B035-1144-200K
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- en-US
- ft:lastEdition
- 2026-09-23
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- mdr1472255012272
- lifecycle
- latest
- storage_format
- Storage format of the DATASET type to use in creating the schema.
- SYSUDTLIB
- Name of the database containing the schema. Schemas that you create are registered in the SYSUDTLIB database.
- schema_name
- Name of the schema. Schema names must be unique across the entire system.
- schema
- You must specify the schema as a constant, that is, literal value. The literal can contain the schema in its text format or in a byte format which contains the UTF-8 encoded characters that compose the schema. Schemas are stored as a Teradata VARBYTE which contains the UTF-8 encoded characters that compose the schema, to a maximum of 63,000 bytes.