Wow I popped out for a couple of hours and you guy's have sent a stagering number of responses. I've had a look at the code and have looked at the database.inc which should be OK to recode. I've worked heavily with MS SQL and Postgres in the past and have had to do a bit of module recoding in Drupal before to get postgres to work from the mysql stuff that's supplied. On the Oracle fron I've also had a play with that (as it's free to download for developers!) so maybe we should plan to try and pick both up at the same time. I'm happy to collaborate and join your group. I should warn you that despite being a programmer of many years (and mostly Linux / UNIX based) I've not worked on an open source project directly (plently of indirect contribs) so you may have to forgive my lack of understanding regarding approach etc. Nick -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Earnest Berry Sent: 23 May 2006 16:33 To: development@drupal.org Subject: RE: [development] Microsoft SQL Server Nick, Perhaps you could join my group and we could collaborate on MS-SQL? And anyone else on any of the other DB vendors? I know we have a client that uses Oracle, and they're itching to have Drupal run on their Oracle back-end instead of MySQL, just for practicality reasons. http://groups.drupal.org/enterprise -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Nick Stone Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:00 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] Microsoft SQL Server I'm interested in resuming support for MS SQL Server. I'm happy to put the effort in and get it working but I'm unsure of how this should be tackled within the Drupal community and whether anyone else has been doing that? If somebody could let me know where to look concerning adding bits to the core system / who to talk to that would be great. Thanks Nick