Re: Existing database - new project

I'm not sure this is of help but I took was the easy way out. In my
models.py for each of my models.Model I added
Class Meta:
managed = False

That worked for me - the existing database tables were not touched.

Johnf
On 03/06/2015 01:18 PM, Robert Daniels wrote:
> I understand it is possible to use an existing database on a new
> Django project.
>
> As I see it, I have 2 choices.
>
> 1 - Use the existing database and deal with it in that fashion.
>
> or
>
> 2 - Create a new project to store the same type of data as if there
> were no existing database, Then write a separate export-import script
> to move the data from the existing db to the new structure.
>
> Wondering if anyone has gone through the "good" and "bad" of each of
> these. I have about 100,000 records in the database, but moving the
> data across should not be that difficult as its a pretty flat model
>

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