5 Working with Databases

A database is an organized collection of data that can be easily accessed, managed, and updated. Even if there isn’t a database in the initial architecture of your project, data that flows through your application will likely touch one or more databases at some point.

Continuing the previous chapter’s discussion on importing data into your Python applications, this chapter covers working with database data. The examples here will show you how to access and manipulate data stored in databases of different types, including those that position SQL as the primary tool to work with data and those that don’t. You’ll explore ...

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