Your question and example are both a bit confusing. I'll try to impart some knowledge that can help you re-focus an ask.
1. In your example, `Session.query(CaseTestInstance)` will return all the data in the `cases_test_instance` table. 2. "Recursive Queries" can mean a few things (and is often used with Contextual Table Expressions or functions that use the `with recursive` operator), and are usually a bit of an advanced topic. I think you mean something else. 3. It sounds like you want to load associated or related data to the foreign keys. In your example, I you would need to create classes that reflect the tables 'cases_test`, `auth_user` and `slaves_groups`. In SqlAlchemy to get this data you must define the classes/tables and then set a `relationship` (and optionally a backref, so the relationship is accessible from both objects). You can then automatically load the relationship with one of the many techniques, or use a table join. The ForeignKey merely states that the column in your table should/must correspond to the column in the other table. It implies that there is a relationship, but you must explicitly declare the relationship in your code. a column like `slave_group_id` would usually be paired with a relationship called `slave_group`. advanced db designs might have multiple declared relationships that are built off the ForeignKey used in conjunction with multiple modifiers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
