On 26 November 2010 21:09, Charlietuna <charlietun...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I looked for FAQ, but I couldn't find any. Here's my question. I've > been working through the tutorials. I've taken a community college > class on Python. So, I have some background there. > I've gotten Django installed and working. So far, I've used sqlite3. > > Here's the question: If you have an MySql database that is already > establised with data, etc, > how do you get Django to set up the abstraction of the db, so that you > can access the data. > > I've worked with the tutorials where you use Django to create the > database. You use syncdb command to setup the "abstraction" of the > data. How do you do it the other direction?
If you have an existing schema in your database, you can use django-admin.py inspectdb[1] to create models from it. It's not guaranteed to be 100% correct, so you may need to tweak the generated models. If you have a database table that you want to access, but don't won't Django to manage it's schema, you can use "managed=False"[2] on the model. Hope that helps :) [1]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#inspectdb [2]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/options/#managed -- Łukasz Rekucki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
