Using Sql Server with Django in production

Question

Has anybody got recent experience with deploying a Django application with an SQL Server database back end? Our workplace is heavily invested in SQL Server and will not supp

Answer 1

These days

• django-mssql: resulted in error "NoneType not callable" upon ./manage.py migrate
• avidal/django-pyodbc: unmaintained. Replaced by:
  • django-pyodbc: no support for python 3
  • django-pyodbc-azure: works for me so far
    • EDIT: Seems to be unmaintained. Filed issue 125 asking about status
    • EDIT: got reply from maintainer. Will be made up-to-date with Django 2.0 soon
    • EDIT: maintainer released version 2.0 for django 2.0
    • EDIT: maintainer released version 2.1 for django 2.1

EDIT: Here are the package versions

Django==1.11.6
django-mssql==1.8
pyodbc==4.0.19
django-pyodbc==1.1.1
django-pyodbc-azure==1.11.0.0