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The Art of PostgreSQL

Python Application for Chinook Database

Explore building a small PostgreSQL application in Python to run efficient top-N queries on the Chinook database. Learn to embed clean SQL using the anosql library, understand lateral subqueries for performance, and maintain query flexibility. This lesson helps you write optimized queries and integrate them into Python applications.

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We’re going to write it in Python to make it easy to browse the code using the anosql Python library. It’s very easy to embed SQL code in Python and keep the SQL clean and tidy in .sql files.

Steps to implement the idea in the application code

To implement the same thing in application code, we have to do the following:

  1. Fetch the list of genres (that’s one select name from genre query).

  2. Then, for each ...