Re: Have different databases using SQLite

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Lars Ruoff <lars.ruoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm having the Django database set up like so:
> DATABASES = {
>    'default': {
>        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
>        'NAME': 'D:\Users\Max\Projects\my4x\data\my4x.db',
>        'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
>        'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
>        'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for
> localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
>        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for
> default. Not used with sqlite3.
>    }
> }
>
> I see that the database contains a lot of Django-related stuff (tables
> with auth_ and django_ prefixes).
> Is there a way i can seperate the Django stuff from my apps model
> database?
> What I'd prefer is to have two different databases (files), with one
> containing the Django stuff and the other my own models.
> Reason is that i develop a game and the database stores the game state
> for a given time step. Ideally, i would like to have a different game
> database file for each time step so i can go back in time when i like.
>

Django will happily support multiple databases, see the docs for the caveats.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/db/multi-db/

Cheers

Tom

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