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Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS RDS Database Instance

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 Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Instead of managing servers, patching OS, and handling backups manually, AWS RDS takes care of the heavy lifting so you can focus on building applications and data pipelines. In this blog, we’ll walk through how to create an AWS RDS instance , key configuration choices, and best practices you should follow in real-world projects. What is AWS RDS? AWS RDS is a managed database service that supports popular relational engines such as: Amazon Aurora (MySQL / PostgreSQL compatible) MySQL PostgreSQL MariaDB Oracle SQL Server With RDS, AWS manages: Database provisioning Automated backups Software patching High availability (Multi-AZ) Monitoring and scaling Prerequisites Before creating an RDS instance, make sure you have: An active AWS account Proper IAM permissions (RDS, EC2, VPC) A basic understanding of: ...

5 Commonly Asked SQL Queries in Interviews

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 Here are the five top commonly asked SQL queries in the interviews. These you can expect in Data Analyst, or, Data Engineer interviews. SQL Queries for Interviews 01. Joins The commonly asked question pertains to providing two tables, determining the number of rows that will return on various join types, and the resultant. Table1 -------- id ---- 1 1 2 3 Table2 -------- id ---- 1 3 1 NULL Output ------- Inner join --------------- 5 rows will return The result will be: =============== 1  1 1   1 1   1 1    1 3    3 02. Substring and Concat Here, we need to write an SQL query to make the upper case of the first letter and the small case of the remaining letter. Table1 ------ ename ===== raJu venKat kRIshna Solution: ========== SELECT CONCAT(UPPER(SUBSTRING(name, 1, 1)), LOWER(SUBSTRING(name, 2))) AS capitalized_name FROM Table1; 03. Case statement SQL Query ========= SELECT Code1, Code2,      CASE       ...

How to Call SQL Query from Python

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Python's top supported database is MySQL. You can run SQL queries from Python. Here're best examples of how to connect to MYSQL and access MYSQL tables from Python. Read:  How to Print String in Next Line Easily Here are Steps Import MySQL connecter Give user id, password details Issue SQL query Python Logic to import MySQL connector import mysql.connector Note: If the MySQL connecter not installed in python, you need to install it using the below command. pip3 install mysql-connector-python --allow-external mysql-connector-python Supply user id and Password conn=mysql.connector.connect(user='root', password='password', host='localhost', database='sakila') mycursor=conn.cursor() Issue SQL Query mycursor.execute("show tables") # you won't see any result. You need to give print. print(mycursor.fetchall()) mycursor.execute("select * from customer") # you won't see any result. You need to give print. print(mycursor.fetchal...