Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 18 June 2010 14:07:53 Tom Evans wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Friday 18 June 2010 07:27:10 Shawn Milochik wrote: > >> Use South data migrations. > > > > I do not understand what data migration has to do with this. > > Data fixups are one sort

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Matt Hoskins
I'm assuming there's no fields on the duplicate player instances that need merging - from your mention of "shift all records of the duplicate" I'm reading that as "shift all records that relate to the player" - otherwise it will need human intervention. Having stated that assumption, while it's pos

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 18 June 2010 07:27:10 Shawn Milochik wrote: >> Use South data migrations. >> > > I do not understand what data migration has to do with this. Data fixups are one sort of migration - its not a schema migration, but a data migrat

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 18 June 2010 07:27:10 Shawn Milochik wrote: > Use South data migrations. > I do not understand what data migration has to do with this. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dja

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-17 Thread Shawn Milochik
Use South data migrations. Sent from my iPad, in accordance with the prophesy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-17 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi I have a problem - there is a model called Player with first_name and last_name. There is a unique_together constraint on first_name and last_name. However I find that the people doing data entry have been entering things like Ram Sharan and RAM SHARAN which are two different names. Of cours