Can i access different database in django than other default database

Question

I have the database backup script in python which inserts some data in mysql database .

Now my Django is in different database.

How can i access different database because i don't have any objects in Models.py. i want to display some data in django interface

Answer 1

Yes, you can setup multiple database and access every one of them. you can get the specified database connection cursor using this:

from django.db import connections
cursor = connections['my_db_alias'].cursor()

where my_db_alias is your another db alias .

check the doc:

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