This might be useful; http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/legacy-databases/ It describes how to create models for your existing databases. However, it wont stop you being able to make writes with the django ORM.
Dougal --- Dougal Matthews - @d0ugal http://www.dougalmatthews.com/ 2009/5/10 tekion <tek...@gmail.com> > > Hi, > I have an application which update MySQL database. It has > aproximately 5 million rows. I am new to django, I am thinking of > using django to generate report using the database as the data source. > From what I have seen of the tutorial, you create a model. The > database model, would create some sort of schema on the database of > your setting (depending on what option you have set up on your > setting.py file). Update,ADD, MOD,Query would go against this > schema. What I am not sure is, what if you don't want to > UPDATE,ADD,MOD, just select from the (external) database because > another application is responsible for the data in the database? Does > any one have ideas on how to best handle this? > > From what I have seen with Django, I would have to write my own code > snippet to handle the query for the report in conjunction with Django > template system. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
