Shoutbox

Well I don't use mysql because I don't like programming php, I prefer to program python and sqlite3 is native to > python 2.4.
however since mysql and sqlite3 are very similar my points are still valid

think of an sql table like a table in excel, each column labeled
for example

code:

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userID        username        reputation        dateJoined        posts        website

1            Jarrod            10                10/3/2009        666            google.com
2            fred                8                5/6/2009        5            yellowpages.com

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so say you table looks like that; it's not to hard to use a csv file to store the same information,
but take this query
you want all the users who's reputation => 10
in python

Python code:

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def get_record():
 for item in open('users.txt').readlines():
  if item[2] => 10:
   return item

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now using sqlite

Python code:

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import sqlite3 as sql
dbname="Users"
con=sql.connect("%s.db"%dbname,isolation_level=None)
cur=con.cursor()
print cur.execute("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE reputation => 10")

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now that won't work completely it will be buggy cos I didn't test it but the idea is that you don't need to write in iterations and such the sql does most of that for you