https://mellowd.co.uk/tags/mysqldb/ Recent content in Mysqldb on mellowd.co.uk Hugo en-gb Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:54:49 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/python-and-mysql/ Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:54:49 +0000 https://mellowd.co.uk/post/python-and-mysql/ <p>Let me preface this post by stating I am not a database expert. I use them occasionally now and then. The below post probably doesn’t show best practices. If you have any suggestions feel free to comment.</p> <p>Over the weekend I’ve been testing various ways for me to store, update, and retrieve data from a database. At first I was using the sqlite3 package, but turned to MySQL. Why the move you ask? Well I already had MySQL running on the target machine and already had scripts backing up all databases every night. Why not just use the existing database there?</p>