The first step to achieve any efficient access to your database is to build an optimal model for your database. If a model is not optimal, the rest of the techniques to speed up access to the database will make very little difference.
But before we dive into how we can build an optimal model for the database, let's first see how we can actually build any model for our database using SQLAlchemy.
For this example, let's imagine we want to build a model to represent a user in our BugZot application. In our BugZot application, a user will be required to provide the following fields:
- First name and last name
- Username
- Email address
- Password
Additionally, our BugZot application also needs to maintain some more information about the user, such as their membership level in the system, the privileges the user is entitled to, whether the user account is active or not, and the activation key that is sent to the user to activate their account.
Now, let's see what happens if we...