Converting a Dataset

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Converting a Dataset

In this hands-on lab, students will be provided with multiple formats of the same dataset, and be asked to convert between them.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Convert the CSV File to a PostgreSQL Table
1. Load the CSV file to a postgres table using the COPY command.
Challenge

Convert from a PostgreSQL Table to CSV
1. Make an update to the PostgreSQL table and convert to a CSV file using the COPY command.
Challenge

Convert JSON to CSV
1. Convert a JSON file to CSV format using the jq JSON query client.

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