Database View and Proxy Model
Explore how to display data from database views by declaring unmanaged models in Django. Understand creating proxy models to manage a model twice in the admin and customize its display and search options.
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Displaying a database view
Sometimes you want to display data which comes from a database view and not from a Django model. It is really easy to do that. You just need to declare the model corresponding to the view in your models.py file but with the specific keyword managed=False in the class Meta and tell Django the database table name:
class QuestionSummary(models.Model):
month = models.DateField()
nbQuestionsByMonth =