Tutorial: Introduction to SQLAlchemy

I will cover how to use sqlalchemy, primarily as an ORM layer, but also explaining the other parts ... this is intended as a hands-on session for people who aren't familiar with SQLalchemy or are fairly new to Python.

• Introduction - relational databases, Python DBAPI, ORM layers
• Philosophy of SQLalchemy - abstraction, database independence, but hand-coded
• SQLalchemy core - engines and connections, data types, schema definition, SQL expressions
• ORM tutorial - using declarative (will actually work through the standard tutorial from the documentation)
• Sessions and concurrency - some tips