create-database
Create a child database.
Description
The create-database
command creates a child database with the provided
database name.
If command line options are omitted, Fauna uses the default configuration file options.
You can’t use this command to create a parent or peer database. To create a database outside of the current database, log into the Fauna Dashboard.
Options
Option | Description |
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(Optional) Fauna server domain, which is the Fauna hostname. |
|
(Optional) Endpoint name to use for the command. |
|
(Optional) Connection port. |
|
(Optional) Connection scheme. Must be one of: |
|
(Optional) Secret to use to connect to a database. |
|
(Optional) connection timeout, in milliseconds.
When the interval elapses, |
|
(Optional) Fauna Query Language version |
Examples
Create a database called my-test-db
:
fauna create-database my-test-db
creating database my-test-db
created database 'my-test-db'
To start a shell with your new database, run:
fauna shell 'my-test-db'
Or, to create an application key for your database, run:
fauna create-key 'my-test-db'
Verify the database is created:
fauna list-databases
listing databases
my-test-db
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