Working with Data

In Working with Transactions and the DBAPI, we learned the basics of how to interact with the Python DBAPI and its transactional state. Then, in Working with Database Metadata, we learned how to represent database tables, columns, and constraints within SQLAlchemy using the MetaData and related objects. In this section we will combine both concepts above to create, select and manipulate data within a relational database. Our interaction with the database is always in terms of a transaction, even if we’ve set our database driver to use autocommit behind the scenes.

The components of this section are as follows:

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