[development] MS SQL question

[Kyle Mathews]

This post by Larry Garfield provides an excellent run-down of the different
ways of using remote data in Drupal:
http://www.palantir.net/blog/remote-data-drupal-museums-and-web-2009

Kyle

Research Assistant
Entrepreneurship and Technology Center @ BYU
kyle.mathews2000.com/blog


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, John Fiala <jcfiala at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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