Interface python with an SQL database

• Database connectivity: - Database connectivity refers to connection and communication between an

application and a database system.
• Mysql.connector:- Library or package to connect from python to MySQL.
• Command to install connectivity package: - pip install mysql-connector-python
• Command to import connector: - import mysql.connector

• Steps for python MySQL connectivity:-

1. Install Python
2. Install MySQL
3. Open Command prompt
4. Switch on internet connection
5. Type pip install mysql-connector-python and execute
6. Open python IDLE
7. import mysql.connector

• Multiple ways to retrieve data:-

fetchall():- Fetchall (remaining) rows of a query result, returning them as a sequence of sequences (e.g.
a list of tuples).
fetchmany (size):-Fetch the next set of rows of a query result, returning a sequence of sequences. It will
return number of rows that matches to the size argument.
fetchone():-Fetch the next row of a query result set, returning a single sequence or None when no more
data is available.

• Functions to execute SQL queries:-

# CREATE DATABASE

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456")
mycor = mydb.cursor()
mycon.execute("CREATE DATABSE Pathwalla")

# SHOW DATABASE

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456")
mycor = mydb.cursor()
mycon.execute("SHOW DATABSES")
for i in mycon:
print (i)

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# CREATE TABLE

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()
mycon.execute("CREATE TABLE student (Name char (25), roll int(10), class int(10))")
mydb.commit()
mydb.close()

# SHOW TABLE

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()
mycon.execute("SHOW TABLES")
for i in mycon:
print (i)

# DESCRIBE TABLE

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()
mycon.execute("DESC student")
data = mycon.fetchall()
for i in data:
print (i)

# SELECT QUERY

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()
mycon.execute("SELECT * FROM student")
data = mycon.fetchall()
for i in data:
print (i)

# WHERE CLAUSE

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()
mycon.execute("SELECT * FROM student")

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data = mycon.fetchall()
for i in data:
print (i)

# DYNAMIC INSERTION

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()

name = input("Enter Name :-")

roll = input("Enter Roll :-")
class = input("Enter Class :-")

mycon.execute("INSERT INTO student VALUES ('{}', '{}', '{}',)".format (name, roll, class))
mydb.commit()
mydb.close()

# UPDATE COMMAND

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()

mycon.execute("UPDATE student SET roll = 5 WHERE Name = 'Ram'")

mydb.commit()
mydb.close()

# DELETE COMMAND

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()

mycon.execute("DELET FROM student WHERE roll = 26")

mydb.commit()
mydb.close()

# DROP COMMAND

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()

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mycon.execute("DROP TABLE student")
mydb.commit()
mydb.close()

# ALTER COMMAND

import mysql.connector as my
mydb = my.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", password = "123456", database = "Pathwalla")
mycor = mydb.cursor()

mycon.execute("ALTER TABLE student ADD Marks int (10)")

mydb.commit()
mydb.close()

Some Important Question

Q1. What is database?

Answer = The database is a collection of organized information that can easily be used, managed,
update, and they are classified according to their organizational approach.

Q2. Write command to install connector.

Answer = pip install mysql-connector-python

Q3. write the steps of connectivity between SQL and Python.

Answer = import, connect, cursor, execute

Q4. What is result set? Explain with example.

Answer = Fetching rows or columns from result sets in Python. The fetch functions in the ibm_db API
can iterate through the result set. If your result set includes columns that contain large data (such as
BLOB or CLOB data), you can retrieve the data on a column-by-column basis to avoid large memory
usage.

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Q5. Write code for database connectivity.

Answer =

# importing the module

import mysql.connector

# opening a database connection

conn = mysql.connector.connect ("localhost", "root", "1234", "student")

# define a cursor object

mycursor = conn.cursor()

# drop table if exists

mycursor.execute("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS STUDENT")

# query
sql = "CREATE TABLE STUDENT (NAME char(30) NOT NULL, CLASS char(5), AGE int, GENDER char(8),
MARKS int)"

# execute query
cursor.execute(sql)

conn.commit()

# close connection
conn.close()

Q6. Use of functions in connectivity - INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ROLLBACK.

Answer =

INSERT: - It is an SQL statement used to create a record into a table.

UPDATE: - It is used update those available or already existing record(s).
DELETE: - It is used to delete records from the database.
ROLLBACK: - It works like "undo", which reverts all the changes that you have made.

Q7. Which method is used to retrieve all rows and single row?

Answer = Fetchall, fetchone()

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Q8. Write python-mysql connectivity to retrieve all the data of table student.

Answer =

import mysql.connector

mydb = mysql.connector.connect( host="localhost", user="root", passwd="123" database="school")

mycursor = mydb.cursor()
mycursor.execute("select * from student")

for x in mycursor.fetchall() :
print(x)

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