Python Django Unknown Command 'SQL'

Question

I'm following this tutorial http://www.sitepoint.com/building-simple-rest-api-mobile-applications/

I'm trying to run SQL by

$ python manage.py sql fishes

However it says

Unknown Command: 'sql'

If I type

$ python manage.py help

I get this, and SQL doesn't appear in the list.

Available subcommands:

[auth]
    changepassword
    createsuperuser

[django]
    check
    compilemessages
    createcachetable
    dbshell
    diffsettings
    dumpdata
    flush
    inspectdb
    loaddata
    makemessages
    makemigrations
    migrate
    sendtestemail
    shell
    showmigrations
    sqlflush
    sqlmigrate
    sqlsequencereset
    squashmigrations
    startapp
    startproject
    test
    testserver

[sessions]
    clearsessions

[staticfiles]
    collectstatic
    findstatic
    runserver

Answer 1

Unfortunately that doesn't exist any more, however the command manage.py dbshell does.

Generally speaking however, you should try to use models, with load_data etc to preserve the data integrity (as validations etc may happen in models rather then relying on underlying data bits). Or write management commands for any clean up tasks.