Re: Connecting to an established MS SQL database

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:26 PM, David McDonald <parkyerbike@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I am very new to Django and have an idea for an application at work.
>
> We have an already established MS SQL database, that I have a read only user
> for.
>
> Is there any way I can connect to this database and retrieve data from it,
> once I have retrieved it, I would like to connect to another MS SQL database
> and perform some actions on the data so this new database may be queried via
> a website.
>
> Is the above even possible?

There are django-mssql and django_pyodbc but I was never able to get
either of those to work for me. I ended up using odbc - I couldn't use
the ORM, but I still was able to connect to the MSSQL DB from my
django app using raw queries.

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