Plex Database - get all Movies and all TV Shows

For all you beginners like me who want to communicate with your plex database and reference Movie names or TV Show names here is a simple SQL command to retrieve everything.

GET ALL TV SHOWS:
SELECT title FROM metadata_items WHERE parent_id IS NULL AND metadata_type=‘2’

GET ALL MOVIES:
SELECT title FROM metadata_items WHERE parent_id IS NULL AND metadata_type=‘1’

Hope this helped someone =)
Took me a while of going through the database to understand how to retrieve this, hard to find anywhere on google.

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