<p>This article describes how to create a database.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Overview</strong></span></p> <p>After you successfully created RDS MySQL instances, you can manually create databases in the RDS console. Each instance manages one or multiple databases.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Procedures</strong></span></p> <p>1.&nbsp; &nbsp;Log in to the <a href="http://pinganyun.com/console/rds/overview" target="_blank">RDS Console</a>.</p> <p>2.&nbsp; In the left navigation pane, click <strong>RDS-MySQL</strong> to enter the <strong>DBPaaS for RDS-MySQL</strong> page.</p> <p>3.&nbsp; Select the target region.</p> <p>4.&nbsp; In the <strong>Operations </strong>column of the target instance, click <strong>Manage</strong>. Select <strong>Database</strong> tab.</p> <p>5.&nbsp; In the upper-right corner of the page, click <strong>Create</strong> <strong>Database</strong> to enter the <strong>Create Database </strong>page.</p> <p>6.&nbsp; Create database based on the following information.</p> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background-color:#ededed; vertical-align:top"> <p><strong>Configuration item</strong></p> </td> <td style="background-color:#ededed; vertical-align:top"> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p>Database Name</p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p>Name of the database to be created.</p> <p><img src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20200307155639-16e96e6796bd.png" style="height:29px; margin:0px; width:65px" />:</p> <ol> <li>The length of database name is 2 to 64 characters.</li> <li>It contains lowercase letters, underscores (_), or digits.</li> <li>The first character should be a lowercase letter and the last character should be a lowercase letter or digit.</li> </ol> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p>Supported character sets</p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p>Currently, the following character sets are supported:</p> <p>&bull;&nbsp; utf8</p> <p>&bull;&nbsp; gbk</p> <p>&bull;&nbsp; latin1</p> <p>&bull;&nbsp; utf8mb4</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p>Description</p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <p>Relevant remarks of the database, for the purpose of unified management.</p> <p><img src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20200307155639-16e96e6796bd.png" style="height:29px; margin:0px; width:65px" />:</p> <ol> <li>The length of remark is 0 to 50 characters.</li> <li>It contains Chinese characters, English letters, underscores (_), hyphens (-), at signs (@), or digits.</li> </ol> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>7.&nbsp; Click <strong>Save</strong>.</p> <p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Result</strong></span></p> <p>On the <strong>Database</strong> page, you can view the database just created and its <strong>Status</strong> changes from <strong>Processing</strong> to <strong>Available</strong>.</p> <p><img src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20200307155708-16e771ec9ce5.png" style="height:144px; width:830px" /></p>