How to create a new MySQL database with go-sql-driver

Question

I'm working on Golang script that automatically clone a database. I'm using go-sql-driver but i can't find in the documentation a way to create a new database. Connection to MySQL require an URL scheme like:

user:password@tcp(localhost:3306)/database_name

But the database not exists yet, I just want to connect to the server and then create a new one.

How can I do that? I have to use another driver?

Answer 1

You can perfectly use the go-sql-driver. However, you need to use a mysql user which has the proper access rights to create new databases.

Here is an example:

func create(name string) {

   db, err := sql.Open("mysql", "admin:admin@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/")
   if err != nil {
       panic(err)
   }
   defer db.Close()

   _,err = db.Exec("CREATE DATABASE "+name)
   if err != nil {
       panic(err)
   }

   _,err = db.Exec("USE "+name)
   if err != nil {
       panic(err)
   }

   _,err = db.Exec("CREATE TABLE example ( id integer, data varchar(32) )")
   if err != nil {
       panic(err)
   }
}

Note that the database name is not provided in the connection string. We just create the database after the connection (CREATE DATABASE command), and switch the connection to use it (USE command).

Note: the VividCortex guys maintain a nice database/sql tutorial and documentation at http://go-database-sql.org/index.html