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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Metzler<[email protected]> > 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 >
