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Here I have three columns for three pieces of information
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that I might want to keep track of for any particular flight.
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For any given flight I might want to know that flight's
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origin, what city it's weaving from.
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Its destination, what city it's arriving at.
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And its duration, some value in minutes of how long
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it's going to take the flight to get from the origin to the destination.
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So each of those columns represents one field
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that I might want to keep track of about my data.
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And each row, meanwhile, is going to represent an individual flight.
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So here, for example, is one row representing one flight from New York
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to London and that flight just so happens to take 415 minutes.
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And so what SQL is going to allow us to do
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is it is going to be a database of language that
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is designed to interact with relational database management systems.
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Databases that organize data into tables where every table has rows and columns.
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And it turns out, there are a number of different database management systems
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that implement parts of the SQL standard of this type of language.
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Some of the more popular are MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite
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but there are definitely others as well.
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And each of these has various different features and different use cases
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where some might be more appropriate.
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MySQL and PostgreSQL, otherwise known as just Postgres,
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are more heavier database management systems, so to speak.
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They're generally running on servers elsewhere where a lot of big companies
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will use servers like this in order to store data
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and represent their data in a sort of a separate database where.
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The idea of that is that you might want your web application running
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on one server but you might want your database
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running as an entirely separate process.
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Such that they can behave independently, you can debug and test them
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independently, and if one goes down, the other doesn't go down as well.
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SQLite is a bit of a simpler lighter weight
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implementation of the SQL standard.
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And what SQLite is going to do is rather than be an entire server that
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is going to be listening for requests and making responses,
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SQLite is just going to store all of its data as a single file.
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So we're going to store SQL data inside of a SQLite file
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and that's going to make it a little bit easier for us
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as we're just getting started to begin to write queries and add things
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to our database and retrieve things from our database.
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But know that many of the same types of SQL syntax that we'll see with SQLite,
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which is Django's default, can also be applied
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to other languages as well and other database management systems too.
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So as we begin to store data inside of a SQL database,
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ultimately each of those pieces of data has a type.
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In the same way that in Python we have types
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for various different types of data, we have integers and we have strings
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and we have lists and tuples and so forth.
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SQL too has types that represent various different categories of information
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that you might want to store inside of a database.
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And each database management system has its own different set of types.
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SQLite for example, has a fairly short list of basic types that it supports.
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It supports text for just like strings of text, for example.
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Something like a city name, for instance, might be stored as text.
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We have support for integers, which are just 0, 1, 2, 3 4
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plus the negative numbers, negative 1, negative 2, negative 3, and so forth.
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We have support for real numbers where real numbers don't
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have to just be integers, they can have something after the decimal point.
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Something like 2.8 or something else that might have a decimal in it.
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And then numeric is another category for data that's just more generally
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some sort of number that might number like data,
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so something like a Boolean value or something like a date, for example,
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might be stored using this numeric type.
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Where it's not really an integer or a real number,
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though you could represented at such, it's other numeric type of data.
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And then finally blob, which stands for binary large object,
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is any type of other binary data.
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Just zeros and ones that you might want to store inside of your database.
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So for example, if you're storing files, maybe they're
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audio files or images or other types of files
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that you want to keep track of inside of your database,
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you can store just pure binary data inside of a SQL database as well.
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So these now are the basic types of SQLite supports
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but other database management systems have
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other types that they support as well.
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MySQL, you all for example, has a much longer list of other types
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that it supports.
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In addition to just supporting a text type for arbitrary length text,
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MySQL also has a type called char that takes an argument of size.
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For saying I want like size characters worth of data
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that we're going to store inside the database.
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And you might imagine that this can be advantageous in situations
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where you know that your data is going to be
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within a certain number of characters.
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So if you're storing a zip code for example, in the United States.
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A zip code in the United States might just be five characters
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and so you can allocate a character length
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of five characters worth of space for storing every single zip code
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inside of your database table.
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So for efficiency's sake, if you know the maximum length,
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and you can fix that length inside your database,
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that can be an efficient choice.
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VARCHAR of a size is similar.
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And this is a variable length character.
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If something isn't going to be exactly a certain number of characters,
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but maybe up to a certain number of characters,
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you can use VARCHAR to say maybe sometimes it's
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going to be fewer characters.
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But it could be up to size, number of characters.
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