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authorMike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>2012-10-28 18:23:24 -0400
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Dialects
========
-The **dialect** is the system SQLAlchemy uses to communicate with various types of DBAPIs and databases.
+The **dialect** is the system SQLAlchemy uses to communicate with various types of :term:`DBAPI` implementations and databases.
The sections that follow contain reference documentation and notes specific to the usage of each backend, as well as notes
for the various DBAPIs.
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External Dialects
-----------------
-.. note::
+.. versionchanged:: 0.8
+ As of SQLAlchemy 0.8, several dialects have been moved to external
+ projects, and dialects for new databases will also be published
+ as external projects. The rationale here is to keep the base
+ SQLAlchemy install and test suite from growing inordinately large.
- As of SQLAlchemy 0.8, several dialects have been moved to external
- projects, and dialects for new databases will also be published
- as external projects. The rationale here is to keep the base
- SQLAlchemy install and test suite from growing inordinately large.
-
- The "classic" dialects such as SQLite, MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle,
- SQL Server, Firebird will remain in the Core for the time being.
+ The "classic" dialects such as SQLite, MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle,
+ SQL Server, Firebird will remain in the Core for the time being.
Current external dialect projects for SQLAlchemy include: