Re: Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-23 Thread Edvinas Narbutas
You are right. Just as i got the same result I saw your post. And this: >        Second, MySQLdb quotes parameters before putting them into the > placeholder, so you'd end up with > > ... like ''something'%' I saw that happen in the query ^_^ This is the final code for it: class item_search(model

Re: Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-23 Thread Andre Terra
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Edvinas Narbutas wrote: > I get this error. "not enough arguments for format string", which im > guessing the LIKE isnt working because this query works. > No, LIKE is working fine, it's your Python string that's broken. item_search_results = itemSearch.object

Re: Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-22 Thread Python_Junkie
Putting django aside for the moment, are you able to take the sql that you wrote above and write a python script with the sql code above. I use the pyodbc module to perform all of my sql scripts. Once you write the successful python sql script, you can import this working module into a django vie

Re: Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-22 Thread Edvinas Narbutas
Yeah, the ORM didn't work out as i thought for this. I have written this raw query with a model. Alot less code compared to as before. class itemSearch(models.Model): typeID = models.SmallIntegerField(primary_key = True)typeName = models.CharField(max_length = 200) item_search_results = itemS

Re: Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-22 Thread Python_Junkie
I think you are limiting yourself by excluding sql. I use the ORM for the admin side of the house and I use sql for all of my web based presentations. SQL will do everything that you want to achieve. ORM has limitations as you have seen. On Dec 22, 7:27 am, kr0na wrote: > Im trying to compare

Re: Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-22 Thread Edvinas Narbutas
Im trying to query the second DB for information. Its a back up from another database, its separate from default, here is the settings.py -> DATABASES: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'NAME': '#', 'USER': '#', 'PASSWORD': '#',

Re: Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM, kr0na wrote: > Im trying to compare two tables in a second database that is a > migrated database from mssql. The second database doesn't have any > apps for it, it will only be used for queries. > > This are my models for the two tables. > from django.db import m

Compare two tables in a secondary database

2011-12-22 Thread kr0na
Im trying to compare two tables in a second database that is a migrated database from mssql. The second database doesn't have any apps for it, it will only be used for queries. This are my models for the two tables. from django.db import models class invGroups(models.Model): groupID = mod