Posted by OldAccount on June 4, 2009 at 7:57pm
Any thoughts on using MSSQL for a Drupal install rather than mySQL? I know WAMP is recommended but in this situation it's preferable to use SQL for our new site (not my decision.) I'm trying to make sure it'll work and will have sufficient support when it inevitably comes time to troubleshoot.
Remember, I'm still new to Drupal, so please keep explanations somewhat simplified or I'll get lost. :-)
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No support
The quick answer is there is no MSSQL support in Drupal 5 or 6.
There is talk of it by leveraging a library contained in PHP known as PDO for Drupal 7, but I have not seen any reports that this has happened. By way of example someone wrote a module allow use of Oracle, but it's still in development, http://drupal.org/project/oracle
Thanks
Thanks, I answered this myself a while after posting the question. I came across a few forum posts that gave the impression people were running it on MSSQL, but then I looked at the drupal.org System Requirements page and it said right there that it wasn't supported. So I have no clue what those other people were talking about.
Thanks again Jalama!