SQL for Python Programmers

At our April meeting we will be discussing SQL - the language used by relational databases to add, manipulate, and retrieve their records. SQL is extremely powerful in this capacity and it's pretty much essential to know at least the basics if you're planning to do any programming that involves an even slightly significant amount of data. Whether you're creating a web application or doing full on data science odds are, at some point you'll need a database, and once you have one of those, you'll probably use SQL to talk to it.

While primarily about SQL, this session will also give you a good insight into how we can interact with SQL-type databases from Python. If you bring a laptop with Python installed you'll be able to follow along during the session (don't worry about installing any variation of SQL itself, Python comes with built in support for SQLite, and that will be sufficient for this session).

Running the session will be our resident database expert and self-proclaimed SQL know-it-all Dave Jones. Dave's talks are always informative, entertaining, and accessible so even if you're new to Python and / or SQL you're bound to get something out of it, but I have no doubt people of all abilities will learn something they didn't know about SQL if they ask the right questions.

There'll be pizza courtesy of our friends at FARM, and the session will be followed by drinks at a local pub.

See you there!