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One of the most important thing about writing applications is to save or store some Data for later use. This data could be simple as setting information or basic user information or can be a full records about something you need to keep, such as health data, or employee contacts or other projects data. To store a huge data we use a Data-Base, some databases are free and open to be downloaded from the internet, one of them is SQLITE3, in Python we can use the Sqlite for small and personal projects. In this post We will use the Sqlite to write a simple project for Employees.

As that our goal is to learn how to use Sqlite and python code to track our employees, and to keep every thing as simple as we can, we will collect only three piece of information that’s will be First Name, Last Name and the Salary.

Functions: In any application there must be several functions to complete our works and tasks that we need to perform, in our Employee System we need to perform these tasks:

1. Show the Data we have.
2. Insert New Employee.
3. Delete an Employee.
4. Editing Employee information.
5. Search for Employee.

This is the most important functions in any application, we will start working on the system and see how things goes on.

First we MUST Creating the data base and set the connection, here is the code to do this and we will call our database as test.db.

 # Create the database. 

import sqlite3, os

db_conn = sqlite3.connect ("test.db")    # set the data-base name

c = db_conn.cursor()  # set the connection

To create the Employee table we will write this code and run it only ONE Time.

 # Create the Employee Table. 

def create_tabels_() :    # to create tables.

    # employee table
    sql_s= "CREATE TABLE if not exists emp (emp_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
 fname text,lname text, pay integer)"

    c.execute(sql_s)
    db_conn.commit()
    print(input('\n   .. Employee TABLE created..  Press any key .. '))

Since we are learning and playing with our code, we may need to drop the table for some reasons, so here is the code to Drop the table we will re-call the function if we need-so.

 # Function to DROP a Table. 

def drop_table(tname):

    c.execute("DROP TABLE {}".format(tname))
    db_conn.commit()

Now after the creating of the Table we need to feed it with some data so we can see the records. To do so we will run a function called dummy_data.

 # Function to INSERT Dummy data into the Employee Table. 


def dummy_data():
    """
        This Function will Insert 4 Dummy rows in the temp table, first record will set the emp_id to 1, the other
        record the emp_id will be AUTOINCREMENT.

        This Function to be run one time only.

    """
# First record will have the emp_id set as 1, other records will be AUTOINCREMENT.
    c.execute ("INSERT INTO emp (emp_id, fname,lname,pay) VALUES(:emp_id, :fname,
:lname, :pay)",{"emp_id":1,"fname":"James","lname":"Max", "pay":"2000"})
    c.execute ("INSERT INTO emp (fname,lname,pay) VALUES(:fname,:lname, :pay)",
{"fname":"Robert","lname":"Ethan", "pay":"1500"})
    c.execute ("INSERT INTO emp (fname,lname,pay) VALUES(:fname,:lname, :pay)",
{"fname":"Jack","lname":"Leo", "pay":"890"})
    c.execute ("INSERT INTO emp (fname,lname,pay) VALUES(:fname,:lname, :pay)",
{"fname":"Sophia","lname":"Jack", "pay":"320"})
    db_conn.commit()

    print(input('\n  Dummy Data has been INSERTED\n\n  .. Press any key .. '))

Main Menu To use the application we need a Menu to jump between the tasks in the app. Here is the Main-Menu, it will return the user selection.

 # The Main Menu. 

def menu():
    os.system("clear")
    print("\n\n      ::: The Menu :::")

    print("   1. Show the Data.")
    print("   2. Insert a New  Employee.")
    print("   3. Delete an Employee.")
    print("   4. Edit/Change employee data. ")
    print("   5. Search.")
    print("   6. Setting.")
    print("   7. Data-Base Information.")
    print("   9. Exit. ")

    uinput = input("\n     Enter a selection: ")

    return uinput

Here is the loop for the Menu and the user selection until (9. Exit) will be selected.

 # The Main Menu. 

while True :

    uinput = menu()

    if uinput == '1' :
        show_data()

    elif uinput =='2' :
        insert_emp ()

    elif uinput =='3' :
        delete_record()

    elif uinput =='4' :
        print("Edit")

    elif uinput =='5' :
        search_emp()

    elif uinput =='6' :
        setting_menu()

    elif uinput =='7' :
        #print("DataBase Information.")
        get_db_info()

    elif uinput =='9' :
        break

    else: # If the user select something out of the menu (Numbers or Character)
        print("  You need to select from the list")

Now we remember that we run the dummy_data() function (above) so we have four records in our Employee Table, so if we want to see the records we will select first option in the Main Menu: 1. Show the data. this will call a function called show_data() as in this screen shot.

The screen prompt will wait for an input of the number that present the task we want. So if we select No. 2 then we will get all the records in the table as this .. .

And here is the code behind this function..

Done with Part 1, in part 2 we will cover more functions to Search and Add records to the Table.