On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:49 -0700, jrs_66 wrote: > Thanks! Very helpful! > > Any idea where a very experienced SQL coder can find a few details > beyond the three pages of model/queryset documentation? Such as > information on a) SQL CASE statements (or equivalent), b) performing > LEFT JOINs (or equivalent). Would studying the source code be my best > option?
There isn't going to be any Django documentation on those things because they aren't Django concepts. If you want to write SQL, write SQL (cursor.execute() is your friend). How to "perform" them in Django isn't really a sensible question as it's not the goal of Django to wrap SQL, as I've explained. What is the specific problem you're trying to solve using Python objects that require these? "Doing a CASE query" is not a specific problem, for example -- it's an attempt at a solution. As for more documentation, there is lots of stuff around, but you're still very short on specifics, so I have no idea what might be appropriate. Typing "django queryset documentation" into Google shows a bunch of stuff, for example and that's about the most naïve search term I could think of. More specific searches will no doubt lead to better results. Reading the source never hurts, since it's exceedingly well documented. Whether that would help or not depends on what you're looking to do and how much time you spend on it, so I can't answer that question. Again, provide some details about the problem(s) you're trying to solve and we can help. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
