First Steps - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 for Effective MySQL Management - page 62

Creating Our First Table
Now that we have a new database, it's time to create a table in it. The example table
we will use is the familiar topic table.

Choosing the Fields
Before creating a table, we should plan the information we want to store. This is
usually done during database design. In our case, a simple analysis leads us to the
following topic-related data we want to keep:

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International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
Title
Number of pages
Author identification

For now, it is not important to have the complete list of fields (or columns) for our
topic table; we will modify it by prototyping the application and refine it later. At the
end of the chapter, we will add a second table, author , containing information about
each author.

Table Creation
We have chosen our table name and we know the number of fields. We enter this
information in the Create new table dialog and click Go to start creating the table:

We then see a panel specifying field information. Since we asked for four fields, we
get four rows, each row referring to information specific to one field: