 the 
<tt>SELECT</tt> command, we indicate which columns we would like <tt>(title, plays)</tt>
and indicate which table we want to retrieve the data from. After we 
execute the <tt>SELECT</tt> statement, the cursor is something we can loop through
in a <tt>for</tt> statement. For efficiency,
the cursor does not read all of the data from the
database when we execute the <tt>SELECT</tt> statement. 
Instead, the data is read on-demand
as we loop through the rows in the <tt>for</tt> statement.<br />
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The 