On Friday, August 9, 2013, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Larry Martell 
> <larry.mart...@gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > So all I can do is execute sql
> > queries against it.
>
>
> good news: that's all the ORM needs.  :-)


Don't I need a models file that describes the schema? I don't even have
access to that.


>
> still, i've found myself on some situations where getting the ORM to
> work correctly wasn't worth the effort.  mostly because of badly
> configured charsets on the server and existing data, so i couldn't get
> unicode text.  in the end, i settled for just using py-odbc to access
> the MS-SQL Server tables (in latin1, ugh) and the ORM for the 'main'
> MySQL data.
>
> so, if you're lucky, you should just be able to set an ORM access to
> both servers.  if not, there's nothing in Django to prevent you from
> using py-odbc.
>
>
That's my plan.

Thanks!

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