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.. _topics-db-sql:
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Performing raw SQL queries
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Feel free to write custom SQL statements in custom model methods and
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module-level methods. The object ``django.db.connection`` represents the
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current database connection. To use it, call ``connection.cursor()`` to get a
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cursor object. Then, call ``cursor.execute(sql, [params])`` to execute the SQL
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and ``cursor.fetchone()`` or ``cursor.fetchall()`` to return the resulting
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rows. Example::
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def my_custom_sql(self):
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from django.db import connection
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cursor = connection.cursor()
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cursor.execute("SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz = %s", [self.baz])
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row = cursor.fetchone()
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return row
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``connection`` and ``cursor`` mostly implement the standard `Python DB-API`_
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(except when it comes to :ref:`transaction handling <topics-db-transactions>`).
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If you're not familiar with the Python DB-API, note that the SQL statement in
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``cursor.execute()`` uses placeholders, ``"%s"``, rather than adding parameters
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directly within the SQL. If you use this technique, the underlying database
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library will automatically add quotes and escaping to your parameter(s) as
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necessary. (Also note that Django expects the ``"%s"`` placeholder, *not* the
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``"?"`` placeholder, which is used by the SQLite Python bindings. This is for
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the sake of consistency and sanity.)
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A final note: If all you want to do is a custom ``WHERE`` clause, you can just
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use the ``where``, ``tables`` and ``params`` arguments to the standard lookup
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API.
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.. _Python DB-API: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html
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