RDBMS-PostgreSQL/C2/Table-with-primary-keys/English-timed
Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Table with primary keys |
00:06 | In this tutorial we will learn to
Insert data Retrieve data |
00:13 | Data Redundancy
Importance of primary keys and Create a table with primary keys |
00:21 | To record this tutorial, I am using
Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system PostgreSQL 9.3.x and pgAdmin 1.18 |
00:36 | To follow this tutorial, you should have Good understanding of basic computer concepts and |
00:43 | Working knowledge of any programming language. |
00:48 | Let us open pgAdmin. |
00:51 | Ensure that you have connected to the localhost server.
Select the 'Sampledb' database. |
00:59 | Click on the students table and then click on Columns node. |
01:06 | We can see the students table with 5 columns which we created earlier.
The structure of the table is ready. |
01:15 | Let us learn how to insert some data into this table. |
01:20 | Right-click on the students table.
From the drop-down menu, select Scripts and then select INSERT script. |
01:29 | The SQL Editor window opens up with the basic syntax for an Insert statement. |
01:36 | Insert statement inserts one or more rows into a table. |
01:42 | The values to be inserted must match the order of the columns and the datatype of each column. |
01:50 | That is - column 1 takes the value 1 and column 2 takes the value 2 and so on. |
01:58 | Type the values as shown.
Here I have entered a single row of data for the student 'Ram'. |
02:06 | The order of the column name should match the values. |
02:10 | Note that character data type values are always enclosed in quotes.
And numeric data type values are not enclosed within quotes. |
02:21 | Next we will execute the insert statement. |
02:25 | Click on the triangle icon in the toolbar to execute the query. |
02:30 | We can see the message 'Query returned successfully: One row affected'. |
02:36 | This indicates that one row of data is inserted into the students table. |
02:42 | I’ll insert one more record. |
02:45 | Execute the query.
I have inserted 2 records now. |
02:52 | Let us now retrieve the data which we have inserted, from the table. |
02:57 | Click on the “Clear edit window” icon in the toolbar to clear the previous statement. |
03:03 | Then type, Select asterisk from |
03:07 | Here we have to specify the table name. Press Ctrl and spacebar together. |
03:15 | A list of available tables appears as shown.
Select the Students table. |
03:23 | Here, Select is a query command which is used to retrieve data from the tables. |
03:29 | Asterisk means all the rows from the table. |
03:33 | This statement will fetch all the values from the students table. |
03:38 | Now click on the triangle icon in the toolbar to execute the query. |
03:44 | We can see the output in a tabular form, in the output pane. |
03:49 | Next I will demonstrate how to add multiple student details at the same time. |
03:56 | The syntax to insert multiple rows is shown here. |
04:01 | We can insert multiple rows in a single insert statement. |
04:06 | Here I have entered the information of the students 'Ram', 'Kishore' and ‘Pooja’. |
04:13 | Let us save the script of this Insert statement for future use. |
04:18 | To do so, click on the Save file icon on the toolbar. |
04:23 | Enter the name of the file as insertscript hyphen student. |
04:28 | Select the folder where you want to save the file. I'll select Desktop. |
04:35 | By default, the file will always be saved with dot sql extension. |
04:41 | Click on the Save button. |
04:44 | As before, click on the triangle icon in the toolbar to execute the query. |
04:50 | In the output pane, we can see the message “3 rows affected”.
This indicates that three records are inserted in the students table. |
05:00 | Once again we will retrieve the data from the students table. |
05:05 | To do so, click on the Previous queries drop-down box.
All the previous typed sql statements are stored here. |
05:15 | Click on “Select asterisk from students” from the list. |
05:20 | Now execute the query. |
05:23 | We can see there are two students with the same name ‘Ram’ but the other column values are different. |
05:31 | How will the institute or organization identify a particular student Ram’s details? |
05:38 | Each student is unique and they need to be identified with some unique attribute.
For example, student id will be unique for each student. |
05:49 | Therefore in our example student id can be the ‘primary key constraint’. |
05:55 | Primary key is a column or a set of columns, that uniquely identifies each row in the table. |
06:03 | Follow these rules when you define a primary key for a table. |
06:08 | A table should have only one primary key. |
06:12 | A primary key can be a single column or a set of columns. |
06:17 | The combination of values in these multiple columns must be unique.
It should not contain null values. |
06:26 | For example |
06:32 | Here, there a duplicate row of data for the student name ‘Kishore’ |
06:38 | By mistake, I have entered the student Kishore’s details twice. |
06:43 | First I demonstrated to insert a single record 2 times and then I inserted 3 records.
The duplication of data is Data redundancy. |
06:55 | Data redundancy, that is data repetition will affect the performance of the database. |
07:02 | More information on Data redundancy is given in the Additional material link, of this tutorial. |
07:09 | How can we prevent insertion of duplicate data?
We can do so by adding a primary key constraint to a table. |
07:18 | Now I’ll show how to add a primary key. |
07:22 | Let’s go to the pgAdmin main screen. |
07:26 | Let me copy the script of create table statement and paste in the SQL Editor. |
07:32 | This is the code which we executed to create the students table. |
07:38 | Can we add a student name column as the primary key to identify each student? |
07:45 | No, student name cannot be assigned as a primary key as there may be many students with the same name. |
07:53 | We have to identify a column with unique values. |
07:58 | So, we will add a student id column to this table to identify each student. |
08:05 | Type the code as shown on the screen. |
08:09 | I have added a new column called studentid, which will store a unique code for each student. |
08:16 | I have defined studentid as the primary key.
Now let’s execute the query. |
08:24 | We can see an error saying “ relation 'students' already exists'. |
08:30 | This means we tried to create a table with the same name students. |
08:36 | Two objects cannot have the same name in a database. |
08:41 | First we will drop the students table along with the data which we inserted now. |
08:47 | Then we will again create the students table with primary key constraints. |
08:53 | Go to the pgAdmin main screen. |
08:56 | Right-click on the students table.
From the drop-down menu, select Delete/Drop. |
09:03 | A pop-up window for Drop table appears.
Click on the Yes button. |
09:10 | This removes a table definition and all its associated data. |
09:16 | The syntax to drop a table is DROP TABLE tablename. |
09:21 | We can also type the statement in the SQL Editor and execute the query. |
09:27 | Switch to the SQL Editor window. |
09:30 | Now let us create the students table with student id as primary key. |
09:36 | Execute the query.
Now the students table is successfully created. But the table is empty without any data. |
09:47 | I'll insert the data from the insertscript hyphen student.sql file which we saved earlier. |
09:54 | Click “Open file” icon in the toolbar and select the insertscript hyphen student file. |
10:01 | The file is opened in the SQL editor window.
I’ll add the studentid column as shown. |
10:10 | Next I’ll pass a unique id for each student. |
10:15 | I’ll add another record for student Ram with unique student id as shown.
Note there is no duplicate row of data. Now execute the query. |
10:29 | We can see that four records have been successfully inserted. |
10:34 | What will happen if we try to insert the same set of data into the students table again? |
10:41 | Let us try that. Execute the insert statement one more time. |
10:47 | We can see the error message “duplicate key value violates unique constraint” |
10:54 | It shows an error which indicates the duplication of data.
Hence the primary key helps to avoid the data redundancy in a table. |
11:05 | Next, let us retrieve the inserted data. |
11:09 | We can see there is no duplication of data. |
11:13 | With this we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. |
11:19 | In this tutorial, we have learnt about
Inserting data Retrieving data |
11:25 | Data Redundancy
Importance of Primary keys Creating table with primary keys |
11:32 | As an Assignment, Drop the Emp table which was created in an earlier assignment in this series. |
11:39 | Create the Emp table with empno as primary key.
Keep the other columns the same. |
11:47 | Insert few records into the Emp table.
Retrieve the data and see the output. |
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