name: mariadb-schema-management-create description: "Scaffold a MariaDB Schema Management (MSM) project and author the initial schema in the development folder — create the project with msm.create_project and write the first version's tables, objects and grants into the MSM sections of <schema>_next.sql. Use when starting a new versioned/maintainable MariaDB schema, creating an MSM schema project, or authoring the initial development script. Read mariadb-schema-management first for the section model."

MSM — Creating the Initial Schema

This is step 1 of the MSM lifecycle (see mariadb-schema-management for the overview and the full section model). Here you scaffold the project and author the first version of the schema in the development folder. Driven by the msm.* tools of the mariadb-shell MCP server. Assume MariaDB 11.8.

1. Scaffold the project

msm.create_project(
    schema_name="notes-app",
    target_path="<parent dir>",
    copyright_holder="...",   # optional
    license="MIT",            # optional: GPL-2.0 | MIT | BSD | None
)

This creates <schema>.msm.project/ with msm.project.json, the development/<schema>_next.sql working script (initial development version 0.0.1), and the empty releases/{versions,updates,deployment}/ folders. msm.get_project_information returns the schema name, versions and paths.

Do not add the standalone "Start Block" from mariadb-schema-create-script here — sections 010/920 already save and restore the server variables.

2. Author the schema into the right sections

Edit development/<schema>_next.sql by section, using msm.set_section_sql_content(file_path, section_id, sql_content) (and msm.get_sql_content_from_section to read one) so the section banners stay intact. Put each kind of object in the section that matches how MSM deploys it:

• Section 140 — tables and base data (non-idempotent). CREATE TABLE and standard seed INSERTs only. This becomes a stored-procedure body in the deployment script, so write plain ;-terminated statements with no DELIMITER.

  CREATE TABLE `notes-app`.`note`(
      `id` INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
      `title` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
      `body` MEDIUMTEXT
  );
  
  INSERT INTO `notes-app`.`note`(`title`) VALUES ('Welcome');
  

• Section 150 — all other objects (idempotent). VIEWs, PROCEDUREs, FUNCTIONs, TRIGGERs, EVENTs. This is emitted at top level with DELIMITER %%; every object must be safe to re-run, so use CREATE OR REPLACE or an explicit DROP ... IF EXISTS first.

  DELIMITER %%
  
  CREATE OR REPLACE SQL SECURITY INVOKER VIEW `notes-app`.`note_titles` AS
      SELECT `id`, `title` FROM `notes-app`.`note`%%
  
  DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `notes-app`.`add_note`%%
  CREATE PROCEDURE `notes-app`.`add_note`(IN t VARCHAR(255))
  BEGIN
      INSERT INTO `notes-app`.`note`(`title`) VALUES (t);
  END%%
  
  DELIMITER ;
  

• Section 170 — authorization. CREATE ROLE and GRANT. Also a stored-procedure body → plain ;-terminated statements, no DELIMITER.

• Section 180 — optional REST endpoints (see mariadb-rest-service-create).

• Sections 130 / 190 — creation helpers. Optional routines whose names must start msm_, defined in 130 and dropped in 190; use them for logic needed only while building the schema.

3. Set the initial version

The version lives in section 910 (the msm_schema_version view). Set it with:

msm.set_development_version(version="0.1.0")

Use whatever development version you intend to release first; MSM starts a fresh project at 0.0.1.

Guidelines

• Only tables/data go in 140; everything else goes in 150 — mixing them breaks the deployment script's create/upgrade split.
• Idempotent objects (150) must use CREATE OR REPLACE / DROP IF EXISTS.
• Keep object definitions grouped and commented; once the file grows, split sections into SOURCE breakout files (see mariadb-schema-management-develop).
• When the first version is ready, prepare a release (mariadb-schema-management-release).

See Also

• mariadb-schema-management — lifecycle overview and full section model.
• mariadb-schema-management-develop — evolving the schema and SOURCE breakout files.
• mariadb-schema-management-release — preparing the first release.
• mariadb-create-table, mariadb-create-view, mariadb-create-procedure, mariadb-create-function, mariadb-grant — the underlying DDL.