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