Displaying random records from MySQL or SQlite database using Tkinter GUI

Use the appropriate lines for SQLite or MySQL database by commenting and un-commenting them.

Connection to Database

Use proper path ( for SQLite database ) or use userid and password for MySQL database.

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text

my_conn = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://id:pw@localhost/my_tutorial") # MySQL
#my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///G:\\testing\\my_db\\my_db.db") # SQLite

my_conn = my_conn.connect()

Here my_conn is used inside the script, so based on the database used, one of the lines to be used in above code.
Connection to SQLite database
Connection to MySQL database

Query to get Random records from student table.

Showing non-repeating random records in Tkinter window from MySQL or SQLite database table

Use one of the two lines below based on the database used.

#q="SELECT id,name,class,mark,gender FROM student2 ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 0,1"#SQlite
q="SELECT id,name,class,mark,gender FROM student2 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1"#MySQL

Code to display random record on Tkinter

Random record from Database

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *

my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("400x250") # Width and height of the window

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
#my_conn = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://id:pw@localhost/my_tutorial") # MySQL
my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///E:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db") # SQLite
my_conn = my_conn.connect()

#q="SELECT id,name,class,mark,gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1" # MySQL
q = "SELECT id, name, class, mark, gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 0,1" # SQLite
my_cursor = my_conn.execute(text(q))
data_row = my_cursor.fetchone()

print(data_row)

i = 0
for student in data_row:
    my_label = tk.Label(my_w, text=str(student), font=20)
    my_label.grid(row=1, column=i, padx=10, pady=25)
    i = i + 1

my_w.mainloop()

On button click show record

Random record from Database on Button click

On every click of the button one random record is displayed.

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *

my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("400x150")

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
#my_conn = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://id:pw@localhost/my_tutorial")
my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///E:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db") # SQLite
my_conn = my_conn.connect()

#q = "SELECT id, name, class, mark, gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1" # MySQL
q = "SELECT id, name, class, mark, gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 0,1" # SQLite

b1 = tk.Button(my_w, text='Show', command=lambda: my_display())
b1.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=5, pady=10, columnspan=2, sticky='w')

def my_display(): # To show random record
    my_cursor = my_conn.execute(text(q))
    data_row = my_cursor.fetchone()
    #print(data_row)
    i = 0
    for w in my_w.grid_slaves(2): # Remove all elements of 2nd row
        w.grid_forget()
    for student in data_row:
        my_label = tk.Label(my_w, text=str(student), font=20)
        my_label.grid(row=2, column=i, padx=5, pady=5)
        i = i + 1

my_w.mainloop()

Getting random record without repeating

As we are getting records from Database and each time one random row from the full list is collected, there is always chance that record will be repeated from the list.

To make it one time only we will update one more column of the table by True or False to indicate that the record is returned or not.
Boolean Data in Tinyint(1) column
The query is here.

q="SELECT id,name,class,mark,gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 0,1"#SQlite
#q="SELECT id,name,class,mark,gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1"#MySQL

Once the record is returned, the same record status column will be set to True to prevent its appearance again. Here based on the id column value we are setting the status to 1 ( True ).

'UPDATE student2 set status=1 WHERE id='+ str(data_row[0])

For this script we have used student2 table which has one additional column status to hold the boolean value.

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *

my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("400x150")

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
#my_conn = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://id:pw@localhost/my_tutorial") # MySQL
my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///E:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db") # SQLite
my_conn = my_conn.connect()

#q = "SELECT id, name, class, mark, gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1" # MySQL
q = "SELECT id, name, class, mark, gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 0,1" # SQLite

b1 = tk.Button(my_w, text='Show', command=lambda: my_display(), bg='lightgreen')
b1.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=5, pady=10, columnspan=2, sticky='w')

def my_display(): # To show random record
    my_cursor = my_conn.execute(text(q))
    data_row = my_cursor.fetchone()
    [w.grid_forget() for w in my_w.grid_slaves(2)] # Remove all previous data
    if data_row: # Once the data is collected (not None)
        my_conn.execute(text('UPDATE student2 set status=1 WHERE id=' + str(data_row[0])))
        #print(data_row)
        i = 0
        for student in data_row:
            my_label = tk.Label(my_w, text=str(student), font=20)
            my_label.grid(row=2, column=i, padx=5, pady=5)
            i = i + 1
    else: # No record is available to show
        my_label = tk.Label(my_w, text='No more records', font=20)
        my_label.grid(row=2, column=0, columnspan=4, padx=5, pady=5)

my_w.mainloop()

Reset records

To reset all rows with status=False

UPDATE student2 SET status=False

We may provide one Reset Button to update the status of all the records to False to make it ready for next round of random record collection.

def my_reset():
    my_conn.execute('UPDATE student2 set status=0' )
    my_label=tk.Label(my_w,text='Records Resetted',font=20)
    my_label.grid(row=2,column=0,columnspan=4,padx=5,pady=5)

Here is the full code with Reset record button

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *

my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("400x150")

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
#my_conn = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://root:test@localhost/my_tutorial") # MySQL
my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///E:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db") # SQLite
my_conn = my_conn.connect()

#q = "SELECT id, name, class, mark, gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1" # MySQL
q = "SELECT id, name, class, mark, gender FROM student2 WHERE status=False ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 0,1" # SQLite

b1 = tk.Button(my_w, text='Show', command=lambda: my_display(), bg='lightgreen', width=18)
b1.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=5, pady=10, columnspan=2, sticky='w')

b2 = tk.Button(my_w, text='Reset', command=lambda: my_reset(), bg='lightyellow', width=18)
b2.grid(row=0, column=2, padx=5, pady=10, sticky='w')

def my_display(): # To show random record
    my_cursor = my_conn.execute(text(q))
    data_row = my_cursor.fetchone()
    [w.grid_forget() for w in my_w.grid_slaves(2)] # Remove all previous data
    if data_row: # Once the data is collected (not None)
        my_conn.execute(text('UPDATE student2 set status=1 WHERE id=' + str(data_row[0])))
        #print(data_row)
        i = 0 # To increment column value         
        for student in data_row:
            my_label = tk.Label(my_w, text=str(student), font=20)
            my_label.grid(row=2, column=i, padx=5, pady=5)
            i = i + 1 # Next column number
    else: # No record is available to show
        my_label = tk.Label(my_w, text='No more record', font=20)
        my_label.grid(row=2, column=0, columnspan=4, padx=5, pady=5)

def my_reset():
    my_conn.execute(text('UPDATE student2 set status=0')) # For all records update status
    [w.grid_forget() for w in my_w.grid_slaves(2)] # Remove all previous data
    my_label = tk.Label(my_w, text='Records Resetted', font=20)
    my_label.grid(row=2, column=0, columnspan=4, padx=5, pady=5)

my_w.mainloop()

Creating student2 table with data using MySQL database

Structure of the student2 table

CREATE TABLE `student2` (
  `id` int(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
  `name` varchar(50)  NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `class` varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `mark` int(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
  `gender` varchar(6) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'male',
  `status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
);

Adding data to table

INSERT INTO `student2` (`id`, `name`, `class`, `mark`, `gender`, `status`) VALUES
(1, 'John Deo', 'Four', 75, 'female', 0),
(2, 'Max Ruin', 'Three', 85, 'male', 0),
(3, 'Arnold', 'Three', 55, 'male', 0),
(4, 'Krish Star', 'Four', 60, 'female', 0),
(5, 'John Mike', 'Four', 60, 'female', 0),
(6, 'Alex John', 'Four', 55, 'male', 0),
(7, 'My John Rob', 'Five', 78, 'male', 0),
(8, 'Asruid', 'Five', 85, 'male', 0),
(9, 'Tes Qry', 'Six', 78, 'male', 0),
(10, 'Big John', 'Four', 55, 'female', 0),
(11, 'Ronald', 'Six', 89, 'female', 0),
(12, 'Recky', 'Six', 94, 'female', 0),
(13, 'Kty', 'Seven', 88, 'female', 0),
(14, 'Bigy', 'Seven', 88, 'female', 0),
(15, 'Tade Row', 'Four', 88, 'male', 0),
(16, 'Gimmy', 'Four', 88, 'male', 0),
(17, 'Tumyu', 'Six', 54, 'male', 0),
(18, 'Honny', 'Five', 75, 'male', 0),
(19, 'Tinny', 'Nine', 18, 'male', 0),
(20, 'Jackly', 'Nine', 65, 'female', 0),
(21, 'Babby John', 'Four', 69, 'female', 0),
(22, 'Reggid', 'Seven', 55, 'female', 0),
(23, 'Herod', 'Eight', 79, 'male', 0),
(24, 'Tiddy Now', 'Seven', 78, 'male', 0),
(25, 'Giff Tow', 'Seven', 88, 'male', 0),
(26, 'Crelea', 'Seven', 79, 'male', 0),
(27, 'Big Nose', 'Three', 81, 'female', 0),
(28, 'Rojj Base', 'Seven', 86, 'female', 0),
(29, 'Tess Played', 'Seven', 55, 'male', 0),
(30, 'Reppy Red', 'Six', 79, 'female', 0),
(31, 'Marry Toeey', 'Four', 88, 'male', 0),
(32, 'Binn Rott', 'Seven', 90, 'female', 0),
(33, 'Kenn Rein', 'Six', 96, 'female', 0),
(34, 'Gain Toe', 'Seven', 69, 'male', 0),
(35, 'Rows Noump', 'Six', 88, 'female', 0),
(39, '', '', 0, 'Female', 0);

Full code to create SQLite database with student2 table

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///E:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db") # Update path
my_conn = my_conn.connect()

my_conn.execute(text("CREATE TABLE `student2` (\
  `id` int(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,\
  `name` varchar(50) DEFAULT '',\
  `class` varchar(10) DEFAULT '',\
  `mark` int(3) DEFAULT 0,\
  `gender` varchar(6) DEFAULT 'male',\
  `status` tinyint(1) DEFAULT 0\
);"))

data = [\
(1, 'John Deo', 'Four', 75, 'female', 0),\
(2, 'Max Ruin', 'Three', 85, 'male', 0),\
(3, 'Arnold', 'Three', 55, 'male', 0),\
(4, 'Krish Star', 'Four', 60, 'female', 0),\
(5, 'John Mike', 'Four', 60, 'female', 0),\
(6, 'Alex John', 'Four', 55, 'male', 0),\
(7, 'My John Rob', 'Five', 78, 'male', 0),\
(8, 'Asruid', 'Five', 85, 'male', 0),\
(9, 'Tes Qry', 'Six', 78, 'male', 0),\
(10, 'Big John', 'Four', 55, 'female', 0),\
(11, 'Ronald', 'Six', 89, 'female', 0),\
(12, 'Recky', 'Six', 94, 'female', 0),\
(13, 'Kty', 'Seven', 88, 'female', 0),\
(14, 'Bigy', 'Seven', 88, 'female', 0),\
(15, 'Tade Row', 'Four', 88, 'male', 0),\
(16, 'Gimmy', 'Four', 88, 'male', 0),\
(17, 'Tumyu', 'Six', 54, 'male', 0),\
(18, 'Honny', 'Five', 75, 'male', 0),\
(19, 'Tinny', 'Nine', 18, 'male', 0),\
(20, 'Jackly', 'Nine', 65, 'female', 0),\
(21, 'Babby John', 'Four', 69, 'female', 0),\
(22, 'Reggid', 'Seven', 55, 'female', 0),\
(23, 'Herod', 'Eight', 79, 'male', 0),\
(24, 'Tiddy Now', 'Seven', 78, 'male', 0),\
(25, 'Giff Tow', 'Seven', 88, 'male', 0),\
(26, 'Crelea', 'Seven', 79, 'male', 0),\
(27, 'Big Nose', 'Three', 81, 'female', 0),\
(28, 'Rojj Base', 'Seven', 86, 'female', 0),\
(29, 'Tess Played', 'Seven', 55, 'male', 0),\
(30, 'Reppy Red', 'Six', 79, 'female', 0),\
(31, 'Marry Toeey', 'Four', 88, 'male', 0),\
(32, 'Binn Rott', 'Seven', 90, 'female', 0),\
(33, 'Kenn Rein', 'Six', 96, 'female', 0),\
(34, 'Gain Toe', 'Seven', 69, 'male', 0),\
(35, 'Rows Noump', 'Six', 88, 'female', 0),\
(39, '', '', 0, 'Female', 0)]

query = "INSERT INTO `student2` (`id`, `name`, `class`, `mark`, `gender`, `status`) VALUES (:id, :name, :class, :mark, :gender, :status)"

# Insert rows using a loop
for row in data:
    id = my_conn.execute(text(query), {"id": row[0], "name": row[1], "class": row[2], "mark": row[3], "gender": row[4], "status": row[5]})
    print(id.rowcount)
my_conn.commit()

To delete table or Check the data

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
#my_conn = create_engine("sqlite:///E:\\testing\\sqlite\\my_db.db") # update Path
my_conn = create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://root:test@localhost/my_tutorial")
my_conn = my_conn.connect()

#r_set=my_conn.execute(text("DROP table student2")) # Delete the table 
#my_conn.commit() # Confirm the delete operation 

r_set = my_conn.execute(text("select * FROM student2"))
for row in r_set:
    print(row)

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Displaying random record from Database