thanks for the response Alex... you've most definitely saved me some time in digging around. I'm going to work on this today and I'll let you know how it goes. For the record, I think your work on multidb is great. This work is going to be what ultimately lets me begin to build apps that are more than just demos in our organization.
On Jul 19, 3:44 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jon Loyens<jonloy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everyone (particularly those working on multidb), > > > I have a pretty simple use case that involves use of multidb support > > and I was wondering if the code base for multidb is far enough along > > to help me out on this. Basically, I have a legacy enterprise db that > > I've created working models for using inspectdb. The models work and > > are a big help in navigating and retrieving the data. > > > What I need to do now is transform some of the data and then store the > > data in a new set of models in a different database. Of course I > > could just open another connection using mysqldb and just write raw > > sql but what would be great is if I could use the django ORM to > > manipulate the data from the first database and then store it in the > > second. > > > My question is this: is there enough work done on multi-db already > > that maybe with maybe a little hack or two I could accomplish this? > > > JL > > Assuming that you're legacy DB doesn't use a custom Query class > (meaning it's not Oracle or one of the external backends), then > multi-db should easily be able to do what you want, check the docs the > multiple_database regression tests for a sense of the API. (Remember > to use the soc2009/multidb branch, not the old multi-db one). > > Alex > > -- > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your > right to say it." -- Voltaire > "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero > "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you > want" -- Me --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
