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How do I get the data extracted from API to my database

I am currently working on a project to build a database on professor’s research paper database. This is my first time building a database(never had experience with MYSQL) and I am learning as I am doing it. I was able to use an api to get the data, for example: {“authorId”: “1773022”, “url”: “https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/1773022”, “papers”: [{“paperId”: “1253d2704580a74e776ae211602cfde71532c057”, “title”: “Nonlinear Schrodinger

Idempotent record creation: is it better to use a unique constraint or check for existence before inserting a record?

I’ve recently been wondering what’s generally the best approach for ensuring that the creation of database records is idempotent. The two approaches I can think of are: Checking whether a record already exists before executing an INSERT Using a unique constraint on the relevant columns to insure two records with the same values cannot exist This seems like an example

How to call a complex SQL query in python

I have the following SQL code: This SQL code has been tested and runs perfectly on SQL Server Management Studio. Now I have the following code for python which is to communicate with an MS SQL Server instance: When I run it, I get the following error where it points to the first semicolon in my code. Could you show

Iterating through a list Python SQL

I’m trying to search a database, by iterating through a list of search values. I’m almost there as this works for integers but not strings. The code below won’t work, but if I replace the list values with numbers it does: Answer It’s because you have to enclose strings in quotation marks in SQL. So for example will work, and

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