You can use the full functionality of sql and python by executing sql queries using the pyodbc module.
The module is documented at this url http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/ You can combine sql and python logic and not have to be constrained by the abstraction of raw sql or the ORM. in your django views Capture the data/transformation in python dictionaries to be rendered in the template On Dec 23, 4:48 pm, Sebastian Goll <sebastian.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:16:11 +0100 > > Babatunde Akinyanmi <tundeba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I actually have a database with thousands of records from which I have > > to randomly select just 10 records from the thousands during every > > query. Because of efficiency, I use the normal select with limit query > > using a random number as offset and 200 as the limit. Next, the idea > > is to shuffle the results and use the first 10 numbers. > > To randomly select 10 records from your model, you can also use > > Model.objects.order_by('?')[0:10] > > This translates loosely to something like this SQL statement: > > SELECT … FROM … ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 10 > > Beware that this might be an expensive and/or slow query, depending on your > database backend. Unfortunately, I don't know how each database backend > compares. See: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/querysets/#order-by > > Regards, > Sebastian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.
