Donnie’s Blog

I was pleased to note that South has recently been recommended as a good solution to the whole problem of database schema migration when using Django. I have been using South in csman for over a month now, and it has just been great. I still back up the database before applying a schema-migration to the production system (no sense in being a complete idiot), but so far every time I’ve had to make a schema change, the process has been completely flawless.

So, I can definitely recommend South too!

In general, it’s still very wise to try to change schemas as infrequently as possible, so I tend to batch up my changes, but South has almost completely removed my worries about making schema changes in my Django projects. It’s a great tool.

The summer break is finally here, and I for one am very excited about this summer. This year I have a SURF student helping me out with the implementation of my “educational database system” in Java. The working name is currently NanoDB, although I am certainly open to other suggestions.

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