There are several methods for building a DB, depending if you want a DB that emulates EQLive or you want a DB that's unique/custom.
There's a packet collector that's currently being used to build replica spawns of Live - check out PEQ's DB they have released, for its probably the best Classic/Kunark/Velious<soon> out right now.
Another method is to just go ingame and start running around and adding spawns using the #spawn command to build your DB. You'll get exact placement and facing but it'll take forever.
Lastly, you can manually build the SQL tables yourself. Again, another lengthy process but you can verify that the entries are in a value range that you'd prefer.
There's plenty of posts already in the forums about all the in's and out's to each of the methods, so make good use of the forums search to avoid unnecesary flaming.
Most server ops take a good base DB and then tweak it to thier liking. I for one ran a private PoP server back in Korea, using a db that was collected with the packet collector - but it lacked all the PoP zones so I manually created them in SQL with loot and quests. So feel free to pick and choose to fulfill what you're looking for.
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