I have been working on a software inventory script lately using SqlAlchemy on Windows XP to connect to a newly created table in a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. I created the table using Aqua Data Studio, logging in as the SQL Administrator (sa) and thought all was well until I tried to commit some […]
December 30, 2010 by
Mike A lot of websites are doing year-end retrospectives this week, so I thought you might find it interesting to know which articles on this blog were the most popular this year. Below you will find links to each article along with the page view count I got from Google Analytics: A Simple Step-by-Step Reportlab Tutorial, […]
Update (10/12/2010) - One of my alert readers told me that SqlAlchemy 0.6.x currently does NOT support the Access dialect. Read here for more info. A year or two ago, I was asked to transfer some data from some old Microsoft Access files to our Microsoft SQL Server. Since I enjoy using SqlAlchemy, I decided […]
September 10, 2010 by
Mike Accessing databases with Python is a simple process. Python even provides a sqlite database library that's built into the main distribution (since 2.5). My favorite way to access databases with Python is to use the 3rd party package, SqlAlchemy. SqlAlchemy is an object-relational mapper (ORM), which means that it takes SQL constructs and makes them […]
In the first part of this series, we went over what some might call the "SQL Expression" method of using SqlAlchemy to interact with your database. The theory behind this is that we should learn the less abstract way of doing things before we get to the higher level (and more abstract) methods. This is […]
A long time ago (circa 2007 if Google serves me right), there was a Python programmer named Robin Munn who wrote a really nice tutorial on SqlAlchemy. It was originally based on the 0.1 release, but updated for the newer 0.2. Then, Mr. Munn just disappeared and the tutorial was never updated. I having been kicking around the idea of releasing my own version of this tutorial for quite some time and finally decided to just do it. I hope you will find this article helpful as I found the original to be. 
