title: Django - testing using large tables of static data
body: <p>I am using "manage.py test" along with a JSON fixture I created using using 'dumpdata'</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that several of the tables in the fixture are very large (for example one containing the names of all cities in the US) which makes running a test incredibly slow. </p>
  
  <p>Seeing as several of these tables are never modified by the program (eg - the city names will never need to be modified), it doesn't make much sense to create and tear down these tables for every test run.  </p>
  
  <p>Is there a better way to be testing this code using this kind of data?</p>