Increasing support for Microsoft SQL Server

[Warren Chu]

Hi All,

Microsoft has commissioned internal resources, of which I'm a member, to drive development and support of an open source Microsoft SQL Server backend solution for Django. This project would exist under the github.com/microsoft organization.

We recognize there is an existing and active project [https://github.com/ESSolutions/django-mssql-backend], and we'd like to solicit ideas and feedback from the Django community on the best way to proceed.

Some initial questions we have are:

1 - How can we best collaborate?

2 - What issues or challenges are most pressing to make MSSQL-Django work better for you?

Thanks,

Warren

[Carlton Gibson]

HI Warren. 

Thanks for your mail. 

1 - How can we best collaborate?

I’d guess the best thing would be to communicate with the existing contributors and ask where resource would be best spent. 

I’m not mssql-server user myself, but first question I’d be asking is where is the backend not feature-equivalent to the backends in core? (I can’t tell you that I’m afraid.) A good test would be whether it passes the django test suite?

Kind Regards,

Carlton

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[Adam Johnson]

Hi Warren,

Thanks for looking at working on this. SQL Server is (I believe) the most popular not-in-core DB backend. Carlton's suggestions are solid.

I'd also point you to reading the old mailing list posts: https://groups.google.com/g/django-developers/search?q=microsoft%20sql . I recall there was a few years ago a previous Microsoft effort to support Django + SQL Server, and some people including the author of django-mssql, Michael Manfre, were flown out to Redmond(?) for some discussions. But I don't know what came of that.

Thanks,

Adam

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This thread in particular, I think.
https://groups.google.com/g/django-developers/c/FbBcUCzrSZo/m/EoFNbR2BDgAJ

[Warren Chu]

Thanks for link references - they've been helpful.

We're in the process of forking the existing django-mssql-backend and setting up related pipelines. We're also reviewing previously logged Github issues, and preparing an internal Django app as a tool and onboarding opportunity. Are there any other hot topics related to Django and MSSQL? We're happy to discuss offline in a video call as well.

Cheers,

Warren