ORM Querying Guide

This section provides an overview of emitting queries with the SQLAlchemy ORM using 2.0 style usage.

Readers of this section should be familiar with the SQLAlchemy overview at SQLAlchemy Unified Tutorial, and in particular most of the content here expands upon the content at Using SELECT Statements.

For users of SQLAlchemy 1.x

In the SQLAlchemy 2.x series, SQL SELECT statements for the ORM are constructed using the same select() construct as is used in Core, which is then invoked in terms of a Session using the Session.execute() method (as are the update() and delete() constructs now used for the ORM-Enabled INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements feature). However, the legacy Query object, which performs these same steps as more of an “all-in-one” object, continues to remain available as a thin facade over this new system, to support applications that were built on the 1.x series without the need for wholesale replacement of all queries. For reference on this object, see the section Legacy Query API.

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