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And there is a way for me to get back just to some of them
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later on that we'll see.
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But for now, let's ask, what questions do
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you have on this SQL SELECT statement and how we're getting back these rows?
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SPEAKER: Do I need to use the quotes around the words like you are?
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CARTER ZENKE: Yeah, great question.
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Do I have to use quotes around the words like I am?
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In general, it's a good practice to use these double quotes around your table
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names and your column names.
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These are called SQL identifiers.
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Later on, we'll see we'll also have strings in SQL-- strings
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being collections of characters we can use.
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For those, we'll simply single-quote them
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to note the difference between a string and an actual column name.
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So good style convention here to use-- double quotes for column names
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and single quotes for string names.
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Other questions too?
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SPEAKER: OK.
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I wanted to know, where did we take all this information from.
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Like, this data, I don't know this list of books,
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where did we take all this information from?
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CARTER ZENKE: Yeah, a great question.
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Where do we take this information from?
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So some of this data is publicly available.
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In fact, if you look at the Booker Prize website,
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you can find a set of longlisted books over the years.
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In this case, we have books from 2018 to 2023.
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We'll also see later on this table has data on the ratings of those books
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and the number of votes that were given to those books.
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That data is from Goodreads, the site that aggregates
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reviews from people like you, people like me who rate books online.
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So we've taken data from a variety of sources and combined it into one here.
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Let's take one more question to from Vinayak.
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SPEAKER: Yeah.
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So I wanted to ask regarding the syntax of what you used in the terminal.
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So is the whole SQLite 3 is case-sensitive
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because while using the syntax you used capital letters, whereas can we
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use small-case letters as well?
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CARTER ZENKE: A great question.
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So here, I used capital letters for SQL keywords
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and lowercase, my table names and column names.
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Do I have to do that?
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I, in some cases, do, some cases don't.
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I think I could use lowercase for these SQL keywords,
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but it's not very good style, for instance.
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So let me just show you an example of this while I go back to my computer.
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So the question again was, can I use lowercase for SQL keywords?
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I think I could, but the question is, should I?
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And probably not.
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So let me try this.
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I'll say select, let's say, title from--
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I'm in the habit of uppercase it.
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So I'll say from in lowercase longlist like this Semicolon.
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Hit Enter.
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And that still works.
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But the problem you might run into is someone
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who's reading your query particularly, a long one, might want to know,
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what are the SQL keywords?
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And what are your column names and other identifiers here?
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By capitalizing your SQL keywords, you can make it clear
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that this is a SQL keyword and not some other name overall.
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OK.
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So let's keep going.
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And we saw just a little bit ago that we could select "title" from "longlist."
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And we would get back a whole list of titles, literally all the titles that
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are in this database.
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But it's often maybe good practice for me to not look at all the data.
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Like, imagine if we had millions of rows in this column,
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but only to give back some.
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Take a peek of what's inside this database.
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And for that, I could use this other SQL keyword, this one called LIMIT.
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So LIMIT, as its name might imply, limits
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the number of queries or the number of rows I get back from my query.
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I could say LIMIT 3, for instance, or LIMIT 5
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to get back only the top 3 or the top 5 rows from my table.
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And let me ask folks, if I wanted to peak
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in this data set, how many rows should I try to limit it to?
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I could say SELECT title from, let's say,
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longlist, but limit to what number?
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I'm seeing 10.
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So let's try 10 first.
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I'll go back to my computer.
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I'll come back over here, and I'll say, why don't I
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select "title" from "longlist?"
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But now, instead of hitting Semicolon, I will instead say LIMIT 10 Semicolon.
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And I'll hit Enter.
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Now I see only the first 10 rows in my data set.
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Handy for peeking in at the top of my data set here too.
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Let me try not just 10 but 5.
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So I'll say SELECT "title" from "longlist" LIMIT 5 Semicolon.
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This then gives me just the top 5 titles in my database.
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Just in whatever order they were added to my table,
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I'll see them in that order here too.
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So using LIMIT, we can actually try to get back a certain number of rows.
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But this isn't quite that interesting.
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It's good for peaking in your data set.
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I think we've answered that question of, what data do we have?
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But let's say we want to make more advanced queries.
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We want to find the books that were nominated in 2023 or perhaps books
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by a certain author.
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