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Video is up for my Pycon 2013 tutorial Introduction to SQLAlchemy.

For those who want to follow along at home, the full code and prerequisite material is available here:

• Prerequisite code
• Slides on Speakerdeck

Preparations are just about complete for my upcoming tutorial Introduction to SQLAlchemy. There's a good crowd of people already attending, and I think registration is still open in case more people want to sign up.

But in any case, if you are coming, this year there is prerequisite material, including the software installs as well as a "Relational Overview" section that covers the basics of SQL and relational databases. Everyone coming to the tutorial should read through this document, so that we're all on roughly the same page regarding upfront SQL knowledge, and try to get the software installed. If there's any issues with the software, please report bugs to me and we'll try to get them resolved by tutorial time. We will also be available at the Wednesday 6:30pm tutorial setup session to help with installs.

Historically, tutorials pack the whole three hours of material up pretty solidly, and I hope I can balance getting lots of coverage versus not talking too fast. Thanks for signing up !

Video is up for my Pycon.ca talk, The SQLAlchemy Session - In Depth. In this talk, I delve into the key philosophies behind the design of SQLAlchemy's Session system. Starting with a brief review of the ACID model, I contrast the approach of the so-called "active record" pattern to that of the more explicit Session pattern, and how the two approaches integrate with the ACID model at work within a relational database. Afterwards, I present an HTML animation of a Session object at work.

• Video (setting the quality to 480p is recommended)
• Slides (pdf format)
• HTML Demo (tar.gz)

Here's the slides from my Pycon 2012 talk, "Hand Coded Applications with SQLAlchemy". I had a great time with this talk and thanks all for coming !

Update: Here's the video!

The video of my PyGotham talk, SQLAlchemy, an Architectural Retrospective is now available at pyvideo. This talk details my current thinking on SQLAlchemy philosophy and then proceeds through architectural overviews of several key areas, including the core operation of the Unit of Work. The accompanying slides are available in PDF form as well. Enjoy !