Questions regarding creating the database

Question

Hi there,
From the previous posting, http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=640415&tstart=15 someone gave me the "formula" of connecting to the database:
java.sql.Connection  conn   =  java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/name_of_DB","user","password") Now just couple of questions regarding the formula :
1) Obviously, if I want the name of my DB, then I will have to create my DB. Can somebody please tell me the protocol of creating the DB? And where do I create this DB (i.e can I create it anywhere in my application)? Or is it that I have to create a new database using MySQL itself?
2) After creating a database, I would like to create multiple tables containing different datas. Is it possible to place the code creating these tables anywher in the application I want?
Your ideas or advice would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Young

Answer 1

1) Yes, you'll have to create the database using MySQL.
2) You sure can once you have the database created with the proper rights assigned to your user. You can put the code anywhere you want but you may want to put it somewhere where it only ran once like on install if you're doing a standalone app.