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## CREATE SCHEMA

**Applies to:** ❌ Data 360 SQL ✅ Tableau Hyper API

Define a new schema.

`CREATE SCHEMA` enters a new schema into the current database. The schema name must be distinct from the name of any existing schema in the current database.

A schema is essentially a namespace: it contains named objects (tables, data types, functions, and operators) whose names can duplicate those of other objects existing in other schemas. Named objects are accessed either by “qualifying” their names with the schema name as a prefix, or by setting a search path that includes the desired schema(s). A `CREATE` command specifying an unqualified object name creates the object in the current schema (the one at the front of the search path, which can be determined with the function `current_schema`).

`<schema_name>`
The name of a schema to be created. If this is omitted, the `<user_name>` is used as the schema name.

`IF NOT EXISTS`
Do nothing if a schema with the same name already exists.

Create a schema:

The `IF NOT EXISTS` option is a Hyper extension.


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