For creating an ENUM column, the enumeration value must be a quoted string literals. We can create ENUM columns in MySQL with the help of the following syntax −
CREATE TABLE table_name( … Col ENUM(‘Value1’,’Value2’,’Value3’), … );
In the above syntax, we have three enumeration values. It can be more than three also.
Example:
Following is an example of creating a table with ENUM column −
mysql> Create table marks(id int Primary key NOT NULL, Name Varchar(255) NOT NULL, Result ENUM('Pass', 'Fail') NOT NULL);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.18 sec)The query above will create a table named marks with an ENUM field.
mysql> Insert into marks(id, name, result) values(101,'Aarav','Pass'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.07 sec) mysql> Insert into marks(id, name, result) values(102,'Yashraj','Fail'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
With the help of queries above we can insert the values in the table.
mysql> Select * from marks; +-----+---------+--------+ | id | Name | Result | +-----+---------+--------+ | 101 | Aarav | Pass | | 102 | Yashraj | Fail | +-----+---------+--------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)