Create the table to the database

Having setup the engine and initialized the metadata, you will now define the census table object and then create it in the database using the metadata and engine from the previous exercise. To create it in the database, you will have to use the .create_all() method on the metadata with engine as the argument.

It may help to refer back to the Chapter 4 exercise in which you learned how to create a table.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Databases in Python

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Exercise instructions

Import Table, Column, String, and Integer from sqlalchemy.
Define a census table with the following columns:
- 'state' - String - length of 30
- 'sex' - String - length of 1
- 'age' - Integer
- 'pop2000' - Integer
- 'pop2008' - Integer
Create the table in the database using the metadata and engine.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Import Table, Column, String, and Integer


# Build a census table: census
census = Table('census', metadata,
               Column('state', ____),
               Column(____, ____),
               ____,
               ____,
               ____)

# Create the table in the database
____

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