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Learning PostgreSQL 11

You're reading from   Learning PostgreSQL 11 A beginner's guide to building high-performance PostgreSQL database solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789535464
Length 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Andrey Volkov Andrey Volkov
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Christopher Travers Christopher Travers
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Relational Databases 2. PostgreSQL in Action FREE CHAPTER 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. OLAP and Data Warehousing 9. Beyond Conventional Data Types 10. Transactions and Concurrency Control 11. PostgreSQL Security 12. The PostgreSQL Catalog 13. Optimizing Database Performance 14. Testing 15. Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications 16. Scalability 17. What's Next? 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Object-relational mapping with SQLAlchemy

The libraries described earlier provide low-level access to databases. A developer must understand how databases work and must know SQL to use them. On the other hand, when a database is just a storage component in the software solution and all the business logic is found in high-level applications, developers of such applications should concentrate on business logic, instead of implementing the interaction with a database that deals with individual queries.

In high-level applications, the business objects are represented as classes and their instances. Methods of these classes represent business methods. The tasks of saving the state of the object in the database and loading it don't belong to business methods.

There is a concept of object-relational mapping (ORM) in software development. It concerns a software layer that represents...

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