# Database for Development Enviroment **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Django\ **Created:** [January 7, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/database-for-development-enviroment/11422 "2022-01-07T04:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![MSoup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/msoup/32/6957_2.png) [@MSoup](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/MSoup)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/database-for-development-enviroment/11422/2 "2022-01-07T05:33:50Z")
Forgive me if I lead you astray, but I also was faced with the task of switching between databases, and came up with a bandaid solution: > [@\[settings.py\] How do I change the DB used when project is spun up in ci/cd (github actions)?](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/settings-py-how-do-i-change-the-db-used-when-project-is-spun-up-in-ci-cd-github-actions/11420): > > My apologies if this has been answered already. I am trying to figure out how to get Django to use sqlite3 when doing automated tests through github actions, but use mssql when run locally. The reason is because well… I can’t just spin up a mssql server instance in my github actions, or not that I am aware of. Perhaps there is a better solution that gets around this problem to begin with, and I’m all ears. So far, I’ve tried something like this: settings.py if len(sys.argv) \> 2 and sys.argv[2… If this isn’t what you’re looking for, I apologize! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/database-for-development-enviroment/11422)._