[development] MS SQL question

[John Fiala]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Metzler<metzlerd at metzlerd.com> wrote:
> When pulling data from external sources, I simply don't use the drupal
> database abstraction layer at all. It doesn't have an ick factor for me at
> all. I use the approach your talking about with great success at my
> university.  We connect to Oracle and MSSql to get external data, and as a
> result have built quite a nice portal using drupal as the application
> development framework.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Dave

Agreed - if it's not the primary database, and you're careful about
intentional or unintentional sql injection, there's no problem with
using other methods to connect to the MS SQL db.  Have fun!

-- 
John Fiala