Hello, I just got started with Prisma a few hours ago and I am slightly confused on one thing. I plan on deploying to the Prisma Cloud when it comes time, but my question is about the database creation. I will host the database myself through Amazon like the tutorial says to do, but do I have to create the tables myself? I know that I define the schema I would like in the SDL syntax. Does Prisma automatically generate the tables and everything for me, or do I have to do that part myself?

Hey Michael! 🙂 the tables are generated for you based on the data model you define for Prisma 👍

Thank you, I was hoping so! 🙂 And I am assuming the schema would be defined within

database/datamodel.graphql

?

Exactly ✅

Awesome, and sorry, but one quick question. What exactly is the

seed.graphql

for? In the docs it says that it is

Contains mutations to seed the database with some initial data

. Is it a requirement to have this file?

No it’s not a requirement 🙂 I’ts just a convenient way to initialize the database with some data upon its first deploy

That clears up my questions, thank you so much for the fast replies!! 🙂