On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Florian Apolloner <[email protected]>wrote:

> What's the state of http://code.google.com/p/pymssql/ ?
>

Their stable release relies upon a no longer supported Microsoft driver and
has some known issues that make it unusable (lack of MARS support being the
biggest issue encountered in production). They've been working toward
switching to FreeTDS, but I have not actively followed their progress since
last summer and don't know how close they are to the switch. I might be
remembering incorrectly, but some of the issues with django-pyodbc's
support of stored procedures might have been rooted in FreeTDS. I haven't
reevaluated django-pyodbc for a few years because of its lack of support
and the native client drivers available to django-mssql are faster.


> If we have MSSQL in core I'd really like to be able to talk with it from a
> Linux machine too, it would also make testing easier since we'd just need a
> VBox with MSSQL ;) Supporting a commercially available product but
> requiring to run even more commercial software seems like counter intuitive
> to me.
>

Django needs a VBox running Windows for testing, regardless if MSSQL is in
the core.

Regards,
Michael Manfre

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