To create new Smartsheet entities, use CREATE TABLE statements.

CREATE TABLE Syntax

The CREATE TABLE statement specifies the table name and a comma-separated list of column names and the primary keys of the table, as shown in the following example:

CREATE TABLE <table_name> [ IF [ NOT EXISTS ] ]
( 
  { 
     <column_name> <data_type> 
     [ NOT NULL ] 
     [ DEFAULT <literal> ] 
     [ PRIMARY KEY ] 
     [ UNIQUE ] 
  } |  PRIMARY KEY ( <column_name> [ , ... ] ) 
  [ , ... ]
)

Columns definitions for data types which cannot be directly mapped to a Smartsheet data type (for example, boolean -> CHECKBOX) are mapped to the generic Smartsheet TEXT_NUMBER type (for example, datetime -> TEXT_NUMBER). In order for the add-in to identify the correct SQL data type for these columns later on during metadata retrieval, ensure that TypeDetectionScheme is set to RowScan; the default behavior. This applies to ALTER TABLE statements as well.

The following example statement creates a MyCustomers table on the Smartsheet server with name, age, and address columns:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS [MyCustomers] (name VARCHAR(20), age INT, address VARCHAR(20))