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Chapter: Days 79-81: Basic Database Access with SQLite3
Lecture: Inserting data into the address book
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Time to finally input some data
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into that address book database, okay.
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So I've just opened up a Python shell
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within that same directory, and the first thing
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we'd need to do is import sqlite3.
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Alright, we need to do that every time we invoke the shell.
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Next, we need to open that connection to the database.
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So, we'll do that, same style as before.
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Connection=SQLite3.connect
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addressbook.db
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Make sure you get the name of the database correct,
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because again it will just generate another database
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if you don't connect exactly
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to the same name as you're trying to, okay.
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Next, we need to actually create that cursor
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that allows us to interact with the database.
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So, c=connection.cursor
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And now we get to execute the code.
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So, execute, what are we inserting,
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well what are we doing, rather, we're inserting data into
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our details table within the address book database
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okay, and this is all SQL now.
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So the values that we're putting in there,
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now visualize this from left to right
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column zero and onwards.
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Column zero was name, column one was address,
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and column two was the phone number.
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So, the first column is going to be, my name.
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The second column is going to be my address.
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I promise this is correct.
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And, my last column is going to be my phone number.
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Don't call me after 9:00.
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And, once we're done, we close off
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the actual execute, the SQL.
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And bang we get that nice little return message.
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Now, that would normally be if you were, sort of,
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using that in a script within a With statement or whatnot
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but, we're doing this all manually
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so we actually need to commit our
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session here.
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So, connection.commit,
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now it's actually saved to the database.
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Alright, so let's close, connection.close.
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Alright, let's bring up our database,
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now I already have this open within SQLite browser,
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so lets refresh here using these little funky arrows.
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And there's our data.
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Let's expand that out so you can see it.
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Now, we've got Julian 123 Fake St.
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and my phone number, alright.
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And that's it, that's how we pop data into there
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one line at a time, in a very manual method.
