Hi all,
I'm new to sqlalchemy. I've always tended to write SQL directly (exposing
SQL results to python code using simple db interface libraries) and I'm
still trying to wrap my head around the purpose, style, and proper idioms of
ORM technology. This is mostly a cultural question I guess.
On Apr 28, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Jennifer Rodriguez-Mueller wrote:
Here is the core SQL (lots of distracting content trimmed):
SELECT s.*, a.*
FROM aliquot_table a
JOIN ( -- Biologically (p)lausible aliquot/specimen type logic
SELECT 3 AS a_type, 12 AS s_type UNION --
Thank you Michael, that makes things *much* clearer!
I had been thinking of sqlalchemy as a database manipulation system that
took inspiration from my source code, rather than thinking of a library that
uses compiled but introspectively accessible bytecode with variable names
preserved, so that
