Using basic database settings

A website by itself is far from useful without a database to talk to; this is why the Visual Studio IDE comes with a lightweight and portable SQLite3 database. Visual Studio will create a file called db.sqlite3 in the same folder as your manage.py file whenever the startproject command is executed. If you created your project using the terminal or command-line window, then you will not have a SQLite database that is used in the following configuration examples, and if you attempt to run your project without this database, it will fail. This is one of the five standard database types that Django directly supports. Database types other than the five types that Django directly supports can also be used. We will also provide an example of how to configure other types of databases, such as the Microsoft SQL Server database. Types that are not any of the five standard types will require using a different engine than the engines that Django provides, which means...