Using SQLite3 and got this error:
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such column: year
SQLite3 newbie over here.
Really confused right now as to what part of the code went wrong...
import sqlite3
def connect():
conn=sqlite3.connect("books.db")
cur=conn.cursor()
cur.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS book (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, title text, author text, year integer, isbn integer)")
conn.commit()
conn.close()
def search(title="",author="",year="",isbn=""):
conn=sqlite3.connect("books.db")
cur=conn.cursor()
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM book WHERE title=? OR author=? OR year=? OR isbn=?",(title,author,year,isbn))
rows=cur.fetchall()
conn.close()
return rows
connect()
print(search(year=1918))
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!!!
Make sure that you have that column.
To list all the columns of the table book:
sqlite3 books.db
and after that:
.schema book
If you don't have a column with the name year you can add it by altering the table, or you can delete your old table and create it again.
One possibility is that no such column exists (the message is correct) because you already created the table, in an earlier version of your code which didn't have that column, so the CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS silently returns.
You could very this manually by examining .schema in interactive sqlite3.
And/or you could cover the possibility in your code by checking the table structure with e.g.
SELECT * FROM sqlite_master;
If it's not correct, you could use ALTER TABLE book ADD COLUMN ... - if you wanted to rename a column, it's more complicated: SQLite Query Language: ALTER TABLE
Related
Im trying to input many rows to a table in a mariaDB.
For doing this i want to use executemany() to increase speed.
The inserted row is dependent on another table, which is found with SELECT.
I have found statements that SELECT doent work in a executemany().
Are there other ways to sole this problem?
import mariadb
connection = mariadb.connect(host=HOST,port=PORT,user=USER,password=PASSWORD,database=DATABASE)
cursor = connection.cursor()
query="""INSERT INTO [db].[table1] ([col1], [col2] ,[col3])
VALUES ((SELECT [colX] from [db].[table2] WHERE [colY]=? and
[colZ]=(SELECT [colM] from [db].[table3] WHERE [colN]=?)),?,?)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
[col2]= ?,
[col3] =?;"""
values=[input_tuplets]
When running the code i get the same value for [col1] (the SELECT-statement) which corresponds to the values from the from the first tuplet.
If SELECT doent work in a executemany() are there another workaround for what im trying to do?
Thx alot!
I think that reading out the tables needed,
doing the search in python,
use exeutemany() to insert all data.
It will require 2 more queries (to read to tables) but will be OK when it comes to calculation time.
Thanks for your first question on stackoverflow which identified a bug in MariaDB Server.
Here is a simple script to reproduce the problem:
CREATE TABLE t1 (a int);
CREATE TABLE t2 LIKE t1;
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES (1),(2);
Python:
>>> cursor.executemany("INSERT INTO t1 VALUES \
(SELECT a FROM t2 WHERE a=?))", [(1,),(2,)])
>>> cursor.execute("SELECT a FROM t1")
>>> cursor.fetchall()
[(1,), (1,)]
I have filed an issue in MariaDB Bug tracking system.
As a workaround, I would suggest reading the country table once into an array (according to Wikipedia there are 195 different countries) and use these values instead of a subquery.
e.g.
countries= {}
cursor.execute("SELECT country, id FROM countries")
for row in cursor:
countries[row[0]]= row[1]
and then in executemany
cursor.executemany("INSERT INTO region (region,id_country) values ('sounth', ?)", [(countries["fra"],) (countries["ger"],)])
Hi..while using the follwing code i am getting duplicate entries in my table..
Please suggest some method to avoid such duplicate entries..!!
Is there any other mode of INSERT query to acheive duplication free tables..???
import psycopg2
def connect():
con=psycopg2.connect("dbname='book_store' user='postgres' password='5283' host='localhost' port='5432' ")
cur=con.cursor()
cur.execute("CREATE TABLE if not exists books(id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,title TEXT NOT NULL,author TEXT NOT NULL,year integer NOT NULL,isbn integer NOT NULL)")
con.commit()
con.close()
def insert(title,author,year,isbn):
con=psycopg2.connect("dbname='book_store' user='postgres' password='5283' host='localhost' port='5432'")
cur=con.cursor()
cur.execute("INSERT INTO books(title,author,year,isbn) VALUES(%s,%s,%s,%s)",(title,author,year,isbn))
con.commit()
con.close()
connect()
insert("the sun","helen",1997,23456777)
insert("the sun","helen",1997,23456777)
Here the same entry gets added again..where i want my code to neglect such duplication..!!!
Ideally there should be primary key or Unique key constraint defined on the table to avoid duplicates but if you want to insert only if that record doesn't exists then you can use below insert statement with select & where not exists clause
INSERT INTO books(title,author,year,isbn) select #title,#author,#year,#isbn from books where
not exists (select 1 from books where title=#title and author=#author and year=#year and isbn=#isbn);
In where condition should check for Primary OR Unique key columns instead of all the columns.
How to avoid creating table again and again in python using Oracle database?
Every time I call the function CREATE table query is executed and data is not inserted because the table already exists.
import cx_Oracle
import time
def Database(name,idd,contact):
try:
con = cx_Oracle.connect('arslanhaider/12345#AHS:1521/XE')
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute("CREATE TABLE Mazdoor(Name varchar(255),EmpID INT,ContactNo INT)")
cur.execute("INSERT INTO Mazdoor VALUES(:1, :2, :3)",( name,idd,contact))
con.commit()
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM Mazdoor")
data = cur.fetchall()
for row in data:
print(row)
except cx_Oracle.Error:
if con:
con.rollback()
finally:
if con:
con.close()
if__name__="__main__"
while True:
n=input("Enter Name::")
i=input("Enter Idd::")
c=input("Enter Contact No::")
Database(n,i,c)
time.sleep(3)
print("Record Successfully Stored......\n\n")
"Obviously, (koff, koff ...) you must know what you are doing!"
If you ask Oracle to CREATE TABLE, knowing in advance that the table might already exist, then your logic should at least be prepared ... through the use of multiple try..except..finally blocks as appropriate, to handle this situation.
If the CREATE TABLE statement fails because the table already exists, then you can be quite sure that an exception will be thrown, and that you, in the relevant except clause, can determine that "this, indeed, is the reason." You might reasonably then choose to ignore this possibility, and to "soldier on."
I have to code on python sqlite3 a function to count rows of a table.
The thing is that the user should input the name of that table once the function is executed.
So far I have the following. However, I don't know how to "connect" the variable (table) with the function, once it's executed.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
def RT():
import sqlite3
conn= sqlite3.connect ("MyDB.db")
table=input("enter table name: ")
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute("Select count(*) from ?", [table])
for row in cur:
print str(row[0])
conn.close()
Columns and Tables Can't be Parameterized
As explained in this SO answer, Columns and tables can't be parameterized. A fact that might not be documented by any authoritative source (I couldn't find one, so if you you know of one please edit this answer and/or the one linked above), but instead has been learned through people trying exactly what was attempted in the question.
The only way to dynamically insert a column or table name is through standard python string formatting:
cur.execute("Select count(*) from {0}".format(table))
Unfortunately This opens you up to the possibility of SQL injection
Whitelist Acceptable Column/Table Names
This SO answer explains that you should use a whitelist to check against acceptable table names. This is what it would look like for you:
import sqlite3
def RT():
conn = sqlite3.connect ("MyDB.db")
table = input("enter table name: ")
cur = conn.cursor()
if table not in ['user', 'blog', 'comment', ...]:
raise ... #Include your own error here
execute("Select count(*) from {0}".format(table))
for row in cur:
print str(row[0])
conn.close()
The same SO answer cautions accepting submitted names directly "because the validation and the actual table could go out of sync, or you could forget the check." Meaning, you should only derive the name of the table yourself. You could do this by making a clear distinction between accepting user input and the actual query. Here is an example of what you might do.
import sqlite3
acceptable_table_names = ['user', 'blog', 'comment', ...]
def RT():
"""
Client side logic: Prompt the user to enter table name.
You could also give a list of names that you associate with ids
"""
table = input("enter table name: ")
if table in acceptable_table_names:
table_index = table_names.index(table)
RT_index(table_index)
def RT_index(table_index):
"""
Backend logic: Accept table index instead of querying user for
table name.
"""
conn = sqlite3.connect ("MyDB.db")
cur = conn.cursor()
table = acceptable_table_names[table_index]
execute("Select count(*) from {0}".format(table))
for row in cur:
print str(row[0])
conn.close()
This may seem frivolous, but this keeps the original interface while addressing the potential problem of forgetting to check against a whitelist. The validation and the actual table could still go out of sync; you'll need to write tests to fight against that.
I have a sqlite3 table as shown below
Record(WordID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, Word TEXT, Wordcount INTEGER, Docfrequency REAL).
I want to create and insert data into this table if the table not exists else I want to update the table in such a way that only 'Wordcount' column get updated on the basis(Reference) of data in the column 'Word'. I am trying to execute this from a python program like
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect("mydatabase")
c = conn.cursor()
#Create table
c.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Record(WordID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, Words TEXT, Wordcount INTEGER, Docfrequency REAL)")
#Update table
c.execute("UPDATE TABLE IF EXISTS Record")
#Insert a row of data
c.execute("INSERT INTO Record values (1,'wait', 9, 10.0)")
c.execute("INSERT INTO Record values (2,'Hai', 5, 6.0)")
#Updating data
c.execute("UPDATE Record SET Wordcount='%d' WHERE Words='%s'" %(11,'wait') )
But I can't update the table. On running the program I am getting the error message as
c.execute("UPDATE TABLE IF EXISTS Record")
sqlite3.OperationalError: near "TABLE": syntax error
How should I write the code to update the table ?
Your SQL query for UPDATE is invalid - see the documentation.
Also, I don't understand why you'd want to check for the table's existence when updating, given that just before that you're creating it if it doesn't exist.
If your goal is to update an entry if it exists or insert it if it doesn't, you might do it either by:
First doing an UPDATE and checking the number of rows updated. If 0, you know the record didn't exist and you should INSERT instead.
First doing an INSERT - if there's an error related to constraint violation, you know the entry already existed and you should do an UPDATE instead.