Entries published on December 14, 2023
Database functions in Django
This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See the first post for an introduction.
Functionally a database
On top of the basic query syntax we’re all used to, SQL databases tend to have a large number of built-in functions — some of which are standardized, some of which are unique to a particular database — and often the ability to write your own custom ones as well.
And Django’s ORM supports a …