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Read From a Database

 

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Read From a Database
Connection parameters
valuedescription
127.0.0.1 the IP address database server;
gisq the name of the database;
scott user name;
tiger the password;

Read the name and population for each country with a population of more than 200000000.

The SQL statement is:
SELECT name, population
  FROM bbc
 WHERE population>200000000

1. [ Perl ] Read values from an SQL database


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You can access other columns from the bbc table. The columns are name region area population and gdp.