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>5.2. How to execute a query</H1
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>Result queries (SELECT statement) return data when they are executed.
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>Example 5-2. Execute a "SELECT" query</B
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> 1 horst@horstnotebook:~> python
2 Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 17 2003, 15:17:58)
3 [GCC 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
4 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
5 >>> from hk_classes import *
6 d>>> dr=hk_drivermanager()
7 >>> con=dr.new_connection("mysql")
8 >>> con.set_password("secret")
9 >>> con.connect()
10 1
11 >>> db=con.new_database("exampledb")
12 >>> query=db.new_resultquery()
13 >>> query.set_sql("SELECT * FROM authors")
14 1
15 >>> query.enable()
16 SQL : SELECT * FROM authors
17 1</PRE
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Many queries, such as data definition queries, don't return data. They only report whether execution of the
query was successful or whether it failed.
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> 1 horst@horstnotebook:~> python
2 Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 17 2003, 15:17:58)
3 [GCC 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
4 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
5 >>> from hk_classes import *
6 d>>> dr=hk_drivermanager()
7 >>> con=dr.new_connection("mysql")
8 >>> con.set_password("secret")
9 >>> con.connect()
10 1
11 >>> db=con.new_database("exampledb")
12 >>> query=db.new_actionquery()
13 >>> query.set_sql("CREATE TABLE `another new table` ( `id` BIGINT(1) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `name` BIGINT, PRIMARY KEY ( `id` ) )")
14 >>> query.execute()
15 CREATE TABLE `another new table` ( `id` BIGINT(1) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `name` BIGINT, PRIMARY KEY ( `id` ) )
16 1</PRE
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