there's nothing stopping you from just executing the SQL directly. I've never actually heard of CREATE TABLE AS before, but I just checked it out and you can certainly generate the SQL programmatically from a select, by inspecting each column in the select statement's "c" collection. It appears to be part of the SQL standard so is a syntax we would accept (it would be appropriate for the 0.6 series where we have CreateTable structures available). But SQLA is a "toolkit" and the tools are there already to automate this process without a pre-made feature.
On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:17 AM, andrew cooke wrote: > > (I thought this might be a FAQ, but I can't find it, and searching > isn't turning up anything either...). > > Am I right n thinking it is not possible to do "CREATE TABLE .... AS" > in SQLAlchemy? In other words, creating a table from a select > statement? > > I'm using 0.4 and Oracle. If it is possible I would love to know how. > > I understand "insert from select is a TODO" (found in a recent post). > So I guess my best bet is to just enter the entire SQL command to > create the table literally?! > > (I am trying to duplicate some SQL that is currently run as a script; > I tried replacing the table with an embedded select, which works, but > is slower than expected. So I need to do this both for efficiency on > one query and also because later queries are going to use the same > table, so I don't want to duplicate work). > > Thanks, > Andrew > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
