# Creating an Event

#### Scenarios

This section describes how to create an event to periodically respond to specific operations.

When event_scheduler for RDS DB instances is set to ON and the event function is enabled, you can perform operations on events.

When event_scheduler is set to OFF, but the event function is enabled, you can only create events and the events do not take effect.

#### Procedure

1. On the top menu bar, choose Database Management. On the displayed Objects page, select Events, and click Create Event.
2. Specify an event name (mandatory) and event definition statements (mandatory), set the execution time, status, and comment, and click Create.

   - Event Definition Statements

     Indicates the SQL statements to be executed when a scheduled event is triggered.

   - Dropped upon expiration
     - Indicates that the events to be executed at a fixed point in time will be deleted after they are executed.
     - Indicates that the events to be periodically executed will be deleted at the specified end time.
3. In the displayed dialog box, click Execute. If no error is reported, the event takes effect.

Parent topic: Event Management