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Learning Julia

By : Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal
Book Image

Learning Julia

By: Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal

Overview of this book

Julia is a highly appropriate language for scientific computing, but it comes with all the required capabilities of a general-purpose language. It allows us to achieve C/Fortran-like performance while maintaining the concise syntax of a scripting language such as Python. It is perfect for building high-performance and concurrent applications. From the basics of its syntax to learning built-in object types, this book covers it all. This book shows you how to write effective functions, reduce code redundancies, and improve code reuse. It will be helpful for new programmers who are starting out with Julia to explore its wide and ever-growing package ecosystem and also for experienced developers/statisticians/data scientists who want to add Julia to their skill-set. The book presents the fundamentals of programming in Julia and in-depth informative examples, using a step-by-step approach. You will be taken through concepts and examples such as doing simple mathematical operations, creating loops, metaprogramming, functions, collections, multiple dispatch, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply your skills in Julia to create and explore applications of any domain.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
8
Data Visualization and Graphics

How to connect with databases?


Connecting with databases requires us to have a middle layer (that is, a database driver) that can help us establish a connection between a database and an application system. The choice of driver will depend on these two underlying factors:

  • Language (in which the application is coded)
  • Database

A database connection is the means by which a database server and its client software communicate with each other. This interaction usually takes place using a query language such as SQL, wherein the user writes his commands in the form of a query and the database fetches the result based upon that. However, the interaction can only take place once a database connection has been established. This is achieved by using a database string, which is the standard way of connecting using a driver's connection API.

In today's modern world, we have the following two broader kinds of databases available for us to make use of:

  • Relational DBMS
  • Non-Relational DBMS

Given these two categories...