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Create a Database

Admins and users with CREATE or CREATE_AS_OWNER privileges on the catalog can create databases. To create a database, select on the main Data page, when you have the Databases tab selected. The Create database dialog appears.

Create database

A dialog appears prompting you to supply a name and optional description for your database. After supplying them, select . After the database is created, another dialog prompts you to either go to the new database or create another one.

Note: Database names cannot start with an underscore. The maximum length of database and dataset (table) names allowed in Okera is 64 characters. The maximum length of column names allowed in Okera is 128 characters.

To add datasets to your newly created database, register them. See Data Registration.