Hi Warren This is excellent news!
Thanks Chris On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 01:40, Warren Chu <vwar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Microsoft has now committed ongoing resources towards improving MSSQL and > Azure SQL support for Django. We're currently focused on internal > compliance and forking the ESSolutions django-mssql-backend > <https://github.com/ESSolutions/django-mssql-backend>, adding testing > pipelines, refactoring the Django DB engine naming convention, and > addressing current test suite errors. > > We'd love to hear from current mssql-backend maintainers as well as > mssql-backend users about the existing issues and feature requests that we > should be prioritizing. > > We looking forward to engaging the community and working towards MSSQL as > a first-class supported backend for Django. > > -Warren > > On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 at 07:05:25 UTC-8 Tim Allen wrote: > >> Hi Sean, just an update from what I know. >> >> We are still waiting for a reply from Microsoft. They're a large company, >> so understandably, it takes a little while. >> >> >> For now, if people need to get onto Django 2.2 for long term support >> (which will last until April, 2022), you can use this package: >> >> https://github.com/ESSolutions/django-mssql-backend I've been running it >> in production for months without incident. Of course, YMMV. >> >> >> If Microsoft and/or the DSF end up wanting to bring support under the >> Django umbrella, the django-mssql-backend repository is a possible >> starting point, IMHO. >> >> The django-mssql-backend is currently being developed and support for >> Django 3.0 is being worked on: ESSolutions/django-mssql-backend#18 >> <https://github.com/ESSolutions/django-mssql-backend/issues/18> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Tim >> >> On Monday, December 2, 2019 at 11:03:56 AM UTC-5, Sean Martz wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> It seems like this issue has lost momentum. Is this still something >>> that's on anyones radar? It looks like django-pyodbc-azure is not actively >>> maintained anymore (it looks like Michaya has taken a hiatus from GitHub). >>> It also looks like there's a small community potentially popping up that's >>> interested in first class MSSQL Server support for Django. ( >>> https://github.com/FlipperPA/django-mssql-backend). Is Microsoft still >>> interested in committing resources to this goal? In my situation, it would >>> be a lot easier to sell stakeholders and decision makers on Django if it >>> had first class support for MSSQL Server. >>> >>> For what it's worth, Django-pyodbc-azure is still working well. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Sean >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/188ccc39-4675-45f1-8303-ed2b93d51dfcn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/188ccc39-4675-45f1-8303-ed2b93d51dfcn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CACQBJYUMx7L21rVXx8Z8xu11_Yfq39nRPU9QXWtHjr7GYxLbCg%40mail.gmail.com.
