hands-on lab
Moving From Spreadsheet to Database
Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 20 minutes
Students: 859
Rating: 3.7/5
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Description
Databases are essential to organizing and understanding your data. Databases allow you to ask questions, or query your data, to find exactly what is needed. This lab is aimed at beginners who want to move beyond spreadsheets and migrate their data into a database. After completing this lab students will be able to create a basic MySQL Database in Amazon RDS, and populate it from a CSV. Additionally, students will learn how to use basic queries against their data.
Learning Objectives
- Learn and Understand Amazon RDS Concepts
- Utilizing Python to interact with a MySQL Database in Amazon RDS to ingest CSV Data
- Learn how to query our newly populated database.
Intended Audience
This lab is intended for:
- Individuals starting out with data engineering
- Anyone interested in learning how to use a database
Prerequisites
You should possess:
- A basic understanding of Python
To fulfill this prerequisite you can complete the Python for Beginners learning path.
Updates
October 20th, 2022 - Updated notebook to resolve database creation issue
Covered topics
Lab steps
Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
Opening the Lab's Jupyter Notebook