What is the easiest way to clear a database from the CLI with manage.py in Django?

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I am using Django to build a website with MySQL. Now as I am learning so I need to change the Model very often so I want that all tables get cleared and new table get created.

But syncdb doesn't touch existing tables. Is there any better way to handle this problem?

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5 Answers

I think Django docs explicitly mention that if the intent is to start from an empty DB again (which seems to be OP's intent), then just drop and re-create the database and re-run migrate (instead of using flush):

If you would rather start from an empty database and re-run all migrations, you should drop and recreate the database and then run migrate instead.

So for OP's case, we just need to:

  1. Drop the database from MySQL
  2. Recreate the database
  3. Run python manage.py migrate
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You can use the Django-Truncate library to delete all data of a table without destroying the table structure.

Example:

  1. First, install django-turncate using your terminal/command line:
pip install django-truncate
  1. Add "django_truncate" to your INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_truncate',
]
  1. Use this command in your terminal to delete all data of the table from the app.
python manage.py truncate --apps app_name --models table_name
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