CREATE TABLE is the correct option.

The CREATE TABLE statement is a Data Definition Language command used to define new tables including their columns types and constraints. It changes the database schema by creating database objects and it is therefore considered part of DDL rather than a query or row level operation.

MERGE is not correct because MERGE is used to insert update or delete rows by merging data from a source into a target and it operates on row data rather than on the schema.

JOIN is not correct because JOIN is a clause used inside queries to combine rows from multiple tables and it is not a standalone DDL statement that creates or modifies schema objects.

SELECT is not correct because SELECT retrieves data from the database and does not define or alter tables or other schema objects.

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