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<p>SQLAlchemy includes several components, each of which are useful by themselves to give varying levels of assistance to a database-enabled application.  Below is a roadmap of the "knowledge dependencies" between these components indicating the order in which concepts may be learned.  
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  |--- <&formatting.myt:link, path="pooling" &>
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  |              |------ <&formatting.myt:link, path="pooling_configuration" &>
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  +--- <&formatting.myt:link, path="dbengine_establishing" &>       |
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                   |                        | 
                   |--------- <&formatting.myt:link, path="dbengine_options" &>
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                   +---- <&formatting.myt:link, path="metadata_tables" &>
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                                   |
                                   |---- <&formatting.myt:link, path="metadata_creating" &>
                                   | 
                                   |    
                                   |---- <&formatting.myt:link, path="sql" &>
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                                   +---- <&formatting.myt:link, path="datamapping"&>               |                
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                                   |               |                      |  
                                   |         <&formatting.myt:link, path="unitofwork"&>                 |              
                                   |               |                      |              
                                   |               |                      |              
                                   |               +----------- <&formatting.myt:link, path="adv_datamapping"&>
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                                   +----- <&formatting.myt:link, path="types"&>
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