Without going into too many specifics, one of the things I do on a weekly basis is intake records from one of our vending partners, massage the data a little, and update one of our own tables based on the results. Basically, what I get from this vendor each week ...

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Clearly, I'm already a day behind on the whole "blog every day in November" thing. But since I haven't actually posted in ... almost a year (not since the last PyCon, in fact), I still consider this a step in the right direction.

The thing is, to blog about ...

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After you've run inspectdb and done all your syncing and basic admin setup, take a peek at the models you generated - depending on the state of your legacy db, you've probably wound up with something that looks like this (column names have ...

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By this time, I'm several weeks into the project and it's time to get you all caught up - let's see if I can break this down into digestable bites.

(Btw, don't expect it to you take this long - this isn't an officially sanctioned work project for me, so ...

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This is most likely going to be at least a three-parter, and I'm not getting into any code samples in this first one. I just wanted to give some background into the project I'm working on, so feel free to skip ahead.

As of this writing, I'm working at a ...

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