### 🔃 `def` 🆚 `async def`

📥 👥 ⚙️ 🇸🇲 📟 🔘 *➡ 🛠️ 🔢* & 🔗, &, 🔄, ⚫️ 🔜 🚶 & 🔗 ⏮️ 🔢 💽.

👈 💪 ⚠ 🚚 "⌛".

✋️ 🇸🇲 🚫 ✔️ 🔗 ⚙️ `await` 🔗, 🔜 ⏮️ 🕳 💖:

```Python
user = await db.query(User).first()
```

...& ↩️ 👥 ⚙️:

```Python
user = db.query(User).first()
```

⤴️ 👥 🔜 📣 *➡ 🛠️ 🔢* & 🔗 🍵 `async def`, ⏮️ 😐 `def`,:

That could potentially require some "waiting".

But as SQLAlchemy doesn't have compatibility for using `await` directly, as would be with something like:

```Python
user = await db.query(User).first()
```

...and instead we are using:

```Python
user = db.query(User).first()
```