Integrating Django with a legacy database
While Django is best suited for developing new applications, it's quite possible to integrate it into legacy databases. Django includes a couple of utilities to automate as much of this process as possible.
Once you've got Django set up, you'll follow this general process to integrate with an existing database.
Give Django your database parameters
You'll need to tell Django what your database connection parameters are, and what the name of the database is. Do that by editing the DATABASES setting and assigning values to the following keys for the 'default' connection:
NAMEENGINE <DATABASE-ENGINE>USERPASSWORDHOSTPORT
Auto-generate the models
Django comes with a utility called inspectdb that can create models by introspecting an existing database. You can view the output by running this command:
python manage.py inspectdb
Save this as a file by using standard Unix output redirection:
python manage.py inspectdb > models.py
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