#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 91-93: Database access with SQLAlchemy
Lecture: Introducing SQLAlchemy
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Are you ready to have some fun playing with the database?
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Well, we're going to talk about an
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amazing technology called SQLAlchemy.
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And this is probably the best way,
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and also, probably the most popular way
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to access relational databases.
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Previously, you learned about SQLite,
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and SQLAlchemy will of course talk to SQLite,
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but it'll talk to all kinds of databases.
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You can find it at SQLAlchemy.org.
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It's an object relational mapper.
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So when we saw SQLite before, you just created strings,
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and you said, "Create this table,"
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or, "Select this from wherever."
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You would write in line SQL, and that was tied to SQLite.
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Well, SQLAlchemy works in a much higher level.
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What we're going to do is we're going to create classes,
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and we're going to model the database shape in our classes.
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SQLAlchemy will actually even create
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the database from the classes, alright?
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So this is really, really powerful.
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We can point at almost any relational database,
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and then we work in these high level Python constructs,
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making it very, very easy for us to write the code.
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We don't have to think in the SQL query language,
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we just think in Python, and it just works.
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It's up to SQLAlchemy to convert that
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to the SQL query language.
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It's really, really easy to get started.
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It's extremely flexible and powerful.
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And we're going to have a lot of fun building an app with it.
