Modifying Data
Commands can be executed individually by the session with a call to "execute()".
Obtaining the Table Object
The query supplied to this method is constructed using the associated Table object of a mapped class. This Table object is obtained from the mapped class's metadata field, as below:
Vendors_table = Vendors.metadata.tables["Vendors"]
Once the table object is obtained, the write operations are executed in the following ways. The queries are executed immediately without the need for a call to "commit()":
Insert
The following example adds a new record to the table:
session.execute(Vendors_table.insert(), {"SMVendorID": "Jon Doe", "Category": "John"})
Update
The following example modifies an existing record in the table:
session.execute(Vendors_table.update().where(Vendors_table.c.Id == "S123456").values(SMVendorID="Jon Doe", Category="John"))
Delete
The following example removes an existing record from the table:
session.execute(Vendors_table.delete().where(Vendors_table.c.Id == "S123456"))