# Connect Tables - JOIN - Intro

By this point, you already know how to perform the main <abbr title="Create, read, update, delete.">CRUD</abbr> operations with **SQLModel** using a single table. 🎉

But the main advantage and feature of SQL databases is being able to handle related data, to **connect** or **"join"** different tables together. Connecting rows in one table to rows in another.

Let's see how to use **SQLModel** to manage connected data in the next chapters. 🤝

!!! tip
    We will extend this further in the next group of chapters making it even more convenient to work with in Python code, using **relationship attributes**.

    But you should start in this group of chapters first. 🤓