On Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:51:48 UTC+10, Marcin Nowak wrote: > > If you're building some report-like queries, or any static queries, I > would suggest to use raw sql. > You can optionally wrap results with model instances using > Model.objects.raw(). >
Thanks Marcin. Yeah, good call perhaps. We're certainly drawn to raw sql (which we all know fairly well) compared to learning Django's tricks for complex queries, but the originator of our project chose to write lots of unit tests using sqlite (instead of our production mysql) for speed and simplicity reasons (notwithstanding questions of incompatibility) - so an ORM offers some extra value currently due to SQL differences that can be handled automatically. On first glance SA appears a little more like SQL than Django's query language - though I'm sure there's times when I may tear my hair out wanting raw SQL. Well done with your efforts - it looks promising. If I run into problems with SA, I'll certainly give it a try! Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts, John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/dfd82122-b043-4e2d-bb2d-a248a2723078%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
