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Django Database Connectitvity

The document explains how to connect a Django application to a MySQL database by configuring the settings.py file with the necessary connection details. It outlines the process of creating a model, generating a migration file, and applying the migration to create a corresponding table in the database. Additionally, it highlights the importance of checking for connection errors and confirms successful connectivity and table creation.

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Django Database Connectitvity

The document explains how to connect a Django application to a MySQL database by configuring the settings.py file with the necessary connection details. It outlines the process of creating a model, generating a migration file, and applying the migration to create a corresponding table in the database. Additionally, it highlights the importance of checking for connection errors and confirms successful connectivity and table creation.

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Django Database Connectivity

The settings.py file contains all the project settings along with database connection details. By default,
Django works with SQLite, database and allows configuring for other databases as well.

Database connectivity requires all the connection details such as database name, user credentials,
hostname drive name etc.

To connect with MySQL, django.db.backends.mysql driver is used to establishing a connection between


application and database. Let's see an example.

We need to provide all connection details in the settings file. The settings.py file of our project contains the
following code for the database.

DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
'NAME': 'djangoApp',
'USER':'root',
'PASSWORD':'mysql',
'HOST':'localhost',
'PORT':'3306'
}
}

After providing details, check the connection using the migrate command.

$ python3 manage.py migrate

This command will create tables for admin, auth, contenttypes, and sessions. See the example.
Now, access to the MySQL database and see the database from the list of databases. The created database
contains the following tables.

Note: It throws an error if database connectivity fails: django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1045,


"Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)")

Migrating Model

Well, till here, we have learned to connect Django application to the MySQL database. Next, we will see how
to create a table using the model.

Each Django's model is mapped to a table in the database. So after creating a model, we need to migrate it.
Let's see an example.

Suppose, we have a model class Employee in the models.py file that contains the following code.

// models.py

from django.db import models


class Employee(models.Model):
eid = models.CharField(max_length=20)
ename = models.CharField(max_length=100)
econtact = models.CharField(max_length=15)
class Meta:
db_table = "employee"

Django first creates a migration file that contains the details of table structure. To create migration use the
following command.

$ python3 manage.py makemigrations

The created migration file is located into migrations folder and contains the following code.

from django.db import migrations, models


class Migration(migrations.Migration):
initial = True
dependencies = [
]
operations = [
migrations.CreateModel(
name='Employee',
fields=[
('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
('eid', models.CharField(max_length=20)),
('ename', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
('econtact', models.CharField(max_length=15)),
],
options={
'db_table': 'employee',
},
),
]

Now, migrate to reflect the changes into the database.

$ python3 manage.py migrate

Check the database again, now it contains the employee table.

See, a table is present in the database. Well, we have successfully established a connection between our Django
application and MySQL database.

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