!!! tip "Tipp"

**FastAPI** doesn't require you to use a SQL (relational) database.

But you can use any relational database that you want.

Here we'll see an example using <a href="https://www.sqlalchemy.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">SQLAlchemy</a>.

In this case, it requires the scope `me` (it could require more than one scope).

!!! note
    You don't necessarily need to add different scopes in different places.

    {!> ../../../docs_src/settings/app02/main.py!}
    ```

!!! tip
    We'll discuss the `@lru_cache` in a bit.

    For now you can assume `get_settings()` is a normal function.

And then we can require it from the *path operation function* as a dependency and use it anywhere we need it.

=== "Python 3.9+"

    ```Python hl_lines="17  19-21"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/settings/app02_an_py39/main.py!}
    ```

                    "type": "missing",
                    "loc": ["body", "file"],
                    "msg": "Field required",
                    "input": None,
                },
                {
                    "type": "missing",
                    "loc": ["body", "fileb"],
                    "msg": "Field required",
                    "input": None,
                },
                {
                    "type": "missing",

                    "loc": ["body", "grant_type"],
                    "msg": "Field required",
                    "input": None,
                },
                {
                    "type": "missing",
                    "loc": ["body", "username"],
                    "msg": "Field required",
                    "input": None,
                },
                {
                    "type": "missing",

                    },
                    "summary": "Read Item",
                    "operationId": "read_item_items__item_id__get",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "required": True,
                            "schema": {"title": "Item Id", "type": "string"},
                            "name": "item_id",
                            "in": "path",
                        }
                    ],

                    },
                    "summary": "Read Item",
                    "operationId": "read_item_items__item_id__get",
                    "parameters": [
                        {
                            "required": True,
                            "schema": {"title": "Item Id", "type": "string"},
                            "name": "item_id",
                            "in": "path",
                        }
                    ],

    It is used by Pydantic and FastAPI to explicitly declare that a value is required.

This will let **FastAPI** know that this parameter is required.

### Required with `None`

You can declare that a parameter can accept `None`, but that it's still required. This would force clients to send a value, even if the value is `None`.

Vous aurez des propositions de complétion que vous n'auriez jamais imaginées. Par exemple la clé `prix` dans le corps d'un document JSON (qui est peut-être imbriqué) venant d'une requête.

Plus jamais vous ne vous tromperez en tapant le nom d'une clé, vous ne ferez des aller-retour entre votre code et la documentation ou vous ne scrollerez de haut en bas afin d'enfin savoir si vous devez taper `username` ou `user_name`.