Bonjour France, Didn’t you find Updindex and autooptimize options in the ‘Options’ panel of the db creation window ? Db:create last parameter is the place to put all your options : http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:create But the Pending update list may overflow memory during db creation/update. You should definitively have a look at the BaseX Scripts (BXS). You can declare a batch of commands in XML, and ask BaseX to run it : http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#Command_Scripts This is the way to set options before invoking the CREATE-DB command : http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#SET I usually write XQuery to generate a BXS that will do the job. Cordialement, Fabrice CERFrance Poitou-Charentes De : basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] De la part de France Baril Envoyé : vendredi 20 octobre 2017 10:44 À : BaseX Objet : [basex-talk] Options for creating database... Hi, I usually create dbs using the gui. I'm now trying to create asb without it to be able to set the updindex and autooptimize options, which I can't find in the GUI. I couldn't figure how to set them out using db:create either, so I switch to command line. Now I'm feeling dumb, I can't find how to set up parsing/indexing options for the command line. I'm looking at: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Command-Line_Options. I found -sindent and -wchop only. What am I missing? Here are all the options that I'd want to set: let $options := map:merge(( map:entry("CHOP", false()), map:entry('INDENT', false()), map:entry('STRIPNS', false()), map:entry('INTPARSE', true()), map:entry('DTD', false()), map:entry('XINCLUDE', false()), map:entry('UPDINDEX', true()), map:entry('AUTOOPTIMIZE', true()) )) I don't want to set UPDINDEX and AUTOOPTIMIZE in .basex because I only want them to be true() on one of my DBs. Other DBs should remain as is. -- France Baril Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect france.baril@architextus.com<mailto:france.baril@architextus.com>