creating a database instance independent of any project .

[nav...@senspan.com]

I have 7 to 8 projects on google app engine, that my whole team works on , and now we have decided to create a test database, so their is a way to create this database instance , and name it testdb, because the only way i found out to create a instance is vis a application and going to sql cloud and then creating a new instance , but in that case the name if database instance is linked with project name . 

  

[Michael (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi there!

Unfortunately, you cannot currently create a CloudSQL instance separate from a project itself, though what you can do is create a new instance within one of those projects, name it testdb as you mentioned, and work from there (so long as your application doesn't interact with it programmatically, it will be self-contained).

You can also create a whole new project just for that instance if you really wanted, as it doesn't need an application tied to it, it just needs to exist.

Cheers!