Update - MSSQL support for Django

Warren Chu

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Mar 19, 2021, 7:56:06 PM3/19/21

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Hi All,

We've released the preview version 1.0b1 of the Microsoft SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django. This version supports Django 2.2, 3.0 and 3.1.

What's coming up next between now and GA release? We are re-adding optional regex support, so that the regex DLL file is downloadable from a trusted Microsoft downloads page. This file can then be installed in SQL Server via our project script. This follows our organizational security best practices.

If you have any questions, feel free to post here in the Django Developer forum, or via Github issues at: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django

Thanks,

Warren

Adam Johnson

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Mar 26, 2021, 7:56:11 AM3/26/21

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Great work Warren and co! I see you already have a number of stars on GitHub.

A promotional blog post could help get the word out as well. If you do write one, submit your blog's Django-specific feed to "Community blog posts" on https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ and it will get picked up by many readers. You can also send it to Jeff Triplett and Will Vincent who run Django News ( https://django-news.com/ ).

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Mar 26, 2021, 8:48:50 AM3/26/21

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Yes, what Adam said! We'll certainly feature the project next week in Django News and would happily also include a blog post etc on the project :)

Florian Apolloner

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Mar 26, 2021, 10:39:20 AM3/26/21

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Maybe wait with featuring till the licensing issues are cleared up. https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django/issues/15 does not leave a good impression on a first glance.

Warren Chu

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Jul 2, 2021, 1:00:40 PM7/2/21

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Hi All,

We've released version 1.0rc1 of the Microsoft SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django, with support for Django 3.2 and JSONField.

We've re-added optional regex support so that the regex DLL file is included in the pypi package as opposed to the source code. This follows our organizational security best practices.

We've also cleared up the licensing issue and reverted to the prior BSD-3 license.

We expect to release GA version 1.0 end of this month - where we'll prepare blog post content in advance and engage the community.

If you have any questions, feel free to post here in the Django Developer forum, or via Github issues at: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django

Thanks,

Warren

Warren Chu

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Jul 30, 2021, 12:32:09 PM7/30/21

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Hi All,

We've released version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django! We're excited to bring ongoing first class support to Django users on SQL Server and Azure SQL DB.

@Will Vincent - we've reached out to your personal email in the hopes that you can post about this release in Django News :)

If anyone has any questions, feel free to post here in the Django Developers forum, or via Github issues at: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django