text: -- must be idempotent
  
  -- @gitpodDB contains name of the DB the script manipulates, 'gitpod' by default.
  -- Prepend the script with "SET @gitpodDB = '`<db-name>`'" if needed otherwise
  SET @gitpodDB = IFNULL(@gitpodDB, '`gitpod`');
  
  SET @statementStr = CONCAT('DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS ', @gitpodDB);
  PREPARE statement FROM @statementStr;
  EXECUTE statement;
  
  SET @statementStr = CONCAT('CREATE DATABASE ', @gitpodDB, ' CHARSET utf8mb4');
  PREPARE statement FROM @statementStr;
  EXECUTE statement;
  