The following example illustrates (in a very simple way) how to use the GdaServerOperation object to perform a CREATE TABLE query. For more information about how Libgda handles DDL queries, see the DDL introduction. The following code simply executes the equivalent of "CREATE TABLE products (id int PRIMARY KEY, product_name string NOT NULL);" in a generic way, where the "id" field is the primary key and should be auto incremented (the SQL is generally specific to each DBMS for that last part).

For SQLite, the actual executed SQL statement is:

	CREATE TABLE products (id integer PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, product_name varchar(50) NOT NULL);
      

whereas for MySQL, the code would be:

	CREATE TABLE products (id integer AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, product_name varchar(50) NOT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB;
      

The code is:

void
create_table (GdaConnection *cnc)
{
	GError *error = NULL;
	GdaServerProvider *provider;
	GdaServerOperation *op;
	gint i;

	/* create a new GdaServerOperation object */
	provider = gda_connection_get_provider (cnc);
	op = gda_server_provider_create_operation (provider, cnc, GDA_SERVER_OPERATION_CREATE_TABLE, NULL, &error);
	if (!op) {
		g_print ("CREATE TABLE operation is not supported by the provider: %s\n",
			 error && error->message ? error->message : "No detail");
		exit (1);
	}

	/* Set parameter's values */
	/* table name */
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "products", &error, "/TABLE_DEF_P/TABLE_NAME")) goto on_set_error;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "InnoDB", &error, "/TABLE_OPTIONS_P/TABLE_ENGINE")) goto on_set_error;

	/* "id' field */
	i = 0;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "id", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_NAME/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "integer", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_TYPE/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "TRUE", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_AUTOINC/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "TRUE", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_PKEY/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;
	
	/* 'product_name' field */
	i++;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "product_name", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_NAME/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "varchar", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_TYPE/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "50", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_SIZE/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;
	if (!gda_server_operation_set_value_at (op, "TRUE", &error, "/FIELDS_A/@COLUMN_NNUL/%d", i)) goto on_set_error;


	/* Actually execute the operation */
	if (! gda_server_provider_perform_operation (provider, cnc, op, &error)) {
		g_print ("Error executing the operation: %s\n",
			 error && error->message ? error->message : "No detail");
		exit (1);
	}
	g_object_unref (op);
	return;

 on_set_error:
	g_print ("Error setting value in GdaSererOperation: %s\n",
		 error && error->message ? error->message : "No detail");
	exit (1);
}