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

We are using django-mssql in production at our company. We too had an existing system using mssql. For me personally it was the best design decision I have ever made because my productivity increased dramatically now that I can use django .

I submitted a patch but when I started using django-mssql and did a week or two of testing.Since then (October 2008) we run our system on django and it runs solid. I also tried pyodbc but I did not like to much.

We are running a repair system where all transactions run through this system 40 heavy users. If you have more questions let me know.