Re: Legacy databases

2008-10-16 Thread Dj Gilcrease
Your first obstacle (currently) is going to be getting django to work with multiple databases (the two Oracle and whatever its base DB is). This is achievable, but undocumented and involves knowing the internals of the QuerySet. Once you have that setup and functional (I would create separate tabl

Re: Legacy Databases - custom filter?

2008-05-18 Thread Dougal
Thank your very much, thats just what I've been looking for. :-) Dougal On May 18, 10:23 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Dougal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would I then do this SQL manually? I know writing SQL is to be > > avoided but is

Re: Legacy Databases - custom filter?

2008-05-18 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Dougal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I then do this SQL manually? I know writing SQL is to be > avoided but is there an easy way to execute SQL commands? Writing SQL is *not* to be avoided. Using an ORM is basically a trade-off, where some things are supp