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diff --git a/docs/topics/install.txt b/docs/topics/install.txt index 39b9a93c04..0ee4113c04 100644 --- a/docs/topics/install.txt +++ b/docs/topics/install.txt @@ -80,7 +80,12 @@ Get your database running If you plan to use Django's database API functionality, you'll need to make sure a database server is running. Django supports many different database servers and is officially supported with PostgreSQL_, MySQL_, Oracle_ and -SQLite_ (although SQLite doesn't require a separate server to be running). +SQLite_. + +It is common practice to use SQLite in a desktop development environment. +Unless you need database feature parity between your desktop development +environment and your deployment environment, using SQLite for development is +generally the simplest option as it doesn't require running a separate server. In addition to the officially supported databases, there are backends provided by 3rd parties that allow you to use other databases with Django: |