[Pytables-announce] PyTables hints for SQL users

[Ivan V. i B. <iv...@ca...>]

Hi all,

We've published a new tutorial/cookbook page in pytables.org which is
intended as a gentle guide to PyTables for users of SQL and relational
databases.  It describes the equivalent way in PyTables to perform most
basic operations under SQL.  You can find it at:

http://www.pytables.org/moin/HintsForSQLUsers

The current contents of the document are:

   1. Creating a new database
         1. A note on concurrency under PyTables
   2. Creating a table
         1. Table descriptions
         2. Column type declarations
         3. Using a description
   3. Creating an index
   4. Altering a table
   5. Dropping a table
   6. Inserting data
         1. A note on transactions
   7. Updating data
   8. Deleting data
   9. Reading data
         1. Iterating over rows
         2. Reading rows at once
   10. Selecting data
         1. Iterating over selected rows
         2. Reading seleted rows at once
         3. Getting the coordinates of selected rows
         4. A note on table joins
   11. Summary of row selection methods
   12. Sorting the results of a selection
   13. Grouping the results of a selection

Since it's a wiki page, you can add your own recipes and hints.  If you
think the page is missing some content you may want to see added, just
request it in the users mailing list or create an empty section in the
page.  We hope that this page proves itself useful to new users coming
=66rom the relational world.

We thank you for your contributions!  Best regards,

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