Re: DATABASE DICTIONARY in Settings.py

2017-04-04 Thread alkhairohr
Thank you so much for all this info. This really clarified things for me. On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 1:42:44 AM UTC-4, Antonis Christofides wrote: > > Hello, > > this is far from an incredibly stupid question. > > As you know, RDBMS's keep their own list of users and have sophisticated > permi

Re: DATABASE DICTIONARY in Settings.py

2017-04-03 Thread Antonis Christofides
Hello, this is far from an incredibly stupid question. As you know, RDBMS's keep their own list of users and have sophisticated permissions systems with which different users have different permissions on different tables. This is particularly useful in desktop applications that connect directly

Re: DATABASE DICTIONARY in Settings.py

2017-04-03 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 4/04/2017 5:50 AM, alkhair...@mymail.vcu.edu wrote: Hey everyone, I'm new to Django and web development overall so please bare with me. I may be asking an incredibly stupid question. In the DATABASES dictionary in settings.py: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'NAME': 'somethin

DATABASE DICTIONARY in Settings.py

2017-04-03 Thread alkhairohr
Hey everyone, I'm new to Django and web development overall so please bare with me. I may be asking an incredibly stupid question. In the DATABASES dictionary in settings.py: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'NAME': 'something', 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'USER