"""This series of tests illustrates different ways to UPDATE a large number of rows in bulk. """ from . import Profiler from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, create_engine, bindparam from sqlalchemy.orm import Session Base = declarative_base() engine = None class Customer(Base): __tablename__ = "customer" id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) name = Column(String(255)) description = Column(String(255)) Profiler.init("bulk_updates", num=100000) @Profiler.setup def setup_database(dburl, echo, num): global engine engine = create_engine(dburl, echo=echo) Base.metadata.drop_all(engine) Base.metadata.create_all(engine) s = Session(engine) for chunk in range(0, num, 10000): s.bulk_insert_mappings(Customer, [ { 'name': 'customer name %d' % i, 'description': 'customer description %d' % i } for i in range(chunk, chunk + 10000) ]) s.commit() @Profiler.profile def test_orm_flush(n): """UPDATE statements via the ORM flush process.""" session = Session(bind=engine) for chunk in range(0, n, 1000): customers = session.query(Customer).\ filter(Customer.id.between(chunk, chunk + 1000)).all() for customer in customers: customer.description += "updated" session.flush() session.commit()