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7th July 2008 - Link Blog

Django Unit Tests and Transactions. If you’re using a transactional database engine (MySQL with InnoDB, Postgres or SQLite) you can speed things up by running each of your unit tests inside a transaction and rolling back in tearDown().

Posted 7th July 2008 at 2:14 pm

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