The Hello World of SQL Queries!

Now it's time for liftoff! In this exercise, you'll perform the Hello World of SQL queries, SELECT, in order to retrieve all columns of the table Album in the Chinook database. Recall that the query SELECT * selects all columns.

This exercise is part of the course

Importing Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

Open the engine connection as con using the method connect() on the engine.
Execute the query that selects ALL columns from the Album table. Store the results in rs.
Store all of your query results in the DataFrame df by applying the fetchall() method to the results rs.
Close the connection!

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import packages
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
import pandas as pd

# Create engine: engine
engine = create_engine('sqlite:///Chinook.sqlite')

# Open engine connection: con


# Perform query: rs
rs = con.execute(____)

# Save results of the query to DataFrame: df
df = pd.DataFrame(____)

# Close connection


# Print head of DataFrame df
print(df.head())

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