Question

Is it possible to use raw SQL rather than the TABLE construct for creating tables in SQL Alchemy? I would still like to use the rest of SQLAlchemy though, such as the object mapper and session module. I’m just not fond of the SQLAlchemy syntax used to create tables (I’ve spent too long mired in SAS and SQL to learn another!).

Many thanks, Rich

Answer 1

Yes.

connection.execute("""
CREATE TABLE ...
""")

You can then reflect all tables: MetaData(dsn, reflect=True) or metadata_instance.reflect().