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

I have seen so many people get the following error after installing django_mssql on Windows:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'sqlserver_ado' isn't an available database backend.
Try using django.db.backends.XXX, where XXX is one of:
  'dummy', 'mysql', 'oracle', 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'sqlite3'
Error was: No module named sqlserver_ado.base

The solution is installing the following plugin:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/