The phrase "establish a database" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of creating and setting up a database for storing and managing data.
Example: "Our team plans to establish a database to improve data management and accessibility for our research project."
Alternatives: "create a database" or "set up a database."
Matalan's strategy of charging shoppers £1 to become lifetime members has enabled it to establish a database of more than 3m people.
On Thursday night, Trump confirmed that if he were elected President, he would establish a database to track Muslims in the United States.
In August, the city's police chief told reporters that the pictures are being used to establish a database of potential suspects, which will help the police investigate future crimes.
"Mr. Spitzer's DNA Proposal" (editorial, May 28) expressed some reservations about Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to establish a database to include samples from everyone found guilty of a felony or a misdemeanor.
The analysis said even a seemingly innocent United Nations contribution like computers "is used to establish a database record of all women of child-bearing age in an area, and to trigger the issuance of 'birth-not-allowed notices' " and the fines.
I mentioned to Joseph Atick of Visionics that the City of London was thinking about using his technology to establish a database that would include not only terrorists but also all British citizens whose faces were registered with the national driver's license bureau.
Early last year, the F.B.I. established a database that for the first time compiled fingerprints from police agencies all over the country.
Baker, who recently established a database of whale, dolphin, and porpoise DNA, identified the meat as sei, the fourth largest of the baleen whales.
Establishing a database of congenital heart disease patients.
