Essential SQLAlchemy, 2nd Edition

Part I. SQLAlchemy Core

Now that we can connect to databases, let’s begin looking at how to use SQLAlchemy Core to provide database services to our applications. SQLAlchemy Core is a Pythonic way of representing elements of both SQL commands and data structures called SQL Expression Language. SQLAlchemy Core can be used with either the Django or SQLAlchemy ORM, or can be used as a standalone solution.