Practice pulling data from database

With the powers of csvkit, we don't need to download and set up fancy database management software like MS SQL Server, DB2, PgAdmin, or TablePlus to be able to access the data inside a SQL database. We can pull data directly from our command line using csvkit's sql2csv command.

In this practice, let's walk through pulling data step by step, by applying SQL manipulations to the table Spotify_Popularity which dwells inside a SQLite database called SpotifyDatabase and then saving the output of the SQL query to a local .csv file Spotify_Popularity_5Rows.csv.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Processing in Shell

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Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Verify database name 
ls

# Pull the entire Spotify_Popularity table and print in log
sql2csv --___ "___" \
        --query "SELECT * FROM Spotify_Popularity"

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