Question

What are some options to avoid the latency of pointing local django development servers to a remote MySQL database?

If developers use local MySQL databases to avoid the latency, what are some useful tools to sync schema updates of the remote db with the local db and avoid manually creating, downloading, and loading dumps?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to do schema migrations. Basically it’s a way to log schema changes so that you can update and even roll back along with your source changes (if you change a model you also check in a new migration that has up and down commands). While this will likely become an official feature at some point, there are several third-party solutions to choose from. It’s really a personal preference, here are some popular ones:

• South
• Django Evolution
• dmigrations