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Databases SQL Basics Finding the Data You Want Review & Practice with SQL Playgrounds

Khalil Al-Rashid
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Khalil Al-Rashid
Courses Plus Student 933 Points
Posted by Khalil Al-Rashid
Khalil Al-Rashid
Courses Plus Student 933 Points

Downloading This Database?

Is it possible to download this database which is available in this course? and how?

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

So you think it would be fun playing with a list of 13,076 actors (there's not much else in there)?

OK, then, here's the trick. Use your browser and save the playground page (as HTML code). Inside the code, there's a <script> section where the variable window.APP_DATA is being assigned to a JSON object with (among other things) the SQL statements to create the tables and populate them with the data. This element is named initializerSql. Now you know why it takes a good while for the playground page to load!

You'll need to do a little editing to prepare the SQL, such as:

  • removing all the HTML outside the <script> section
  • removing the extra JSON elements
  • converting sequences of "\n" into real line endings
  • converting escaped quotes (\") into plain quotes (")
  • converting accents (`) into single quotes (') - unless your DB likes them

Once you've done all that, you can run the SQL into your favorite DB engine to create your duplicate database.

Enjoy!

Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,638 Points
Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,638 Points

I don't believe so Khalil, but from what I can tell there's not really much of an advantage to doing so.

Iain Simmons
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Iain Simmons
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Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

Or copy and paste in a spreadsheet application and export as CSV? Then the trick is getting all the right types on import into the database application of your choice.