What is the difference between a schema and a table and a database?

Question

This is probably a n00blike (or worse) question. But I\'ve always viewed a schema as a table definition in a database. This is wrong or not entirely correct. I don\'t rememb

Answer 1

Schema behaves seem like a parent object as seen in OOP world. so it's not a database itself. maybe this link is useful.

But, In MySQL, the two are equivalent. The keyword DATABASE or DATABASES can be replaced with SCHEMA or SCHEMAS wherever it appears. Examples:

• CREATE DATABASE <=> CREATE SCHEMA
• SHOW DATABASES <=> SHOW SCHEMAS

Documentation of MySQL

SCHEMA & DATABASE terms are something DBMS dependent.

A Table is a set of data elements (values) that is organized using a model of vertical columns (which are identified by their name) and horizontal rows. A database contains one or more(usually) Tables . And you store your data in these tables. The tables may be related with one another(See here).