Re: Revisiting MSSQL and Azure SQL Support in Django

2022-04-01 Thread Warren Chu
g tools, how popular is your package? > > 3. How can you guarantee the long-term sustainability of your package? > > 4. What are the previous involvements of MS Package contributors in Django? > > 5. How does MS support Django Project for its long-term fundraising goals? > > 6. I

Re: Revisiting MSSQL and Azure SQL Support in Django

2022-03-31 Thread Warren Chu
;t see Microsoft on the sponsorship page: > https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/ 😉 > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:30 PM Warren Chu wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> There is increasing interest within Microsoft to have stronger ties >> between Microsoft SQL S

Revisiting MSSQL and Azure SQL Support in Django

2022-03-31 Thread Warren Chu
Hi All, There is increasing interest within Microsoft to have stronger ties between Microsoft SQL Server and Django. As you may be aware, Microsoft and their connectivity teams have been managing the 3rd party backend for "mssql-django" for over a year now at: https://github.com/microsoft/mssq

Re: mssql-django - Need help to contribute / run tests locally

2022-02-15 Thread Warren Chu
Hi All, As a project admin for mssql-django, I agree with the above sentiment. The support.md policy of the project has now removed the mention of this Google group, and we will look to better direct users to the Github issues of mssql-django as the primary support channel. Thanks, Warren On

Re: Update - MSSQL support for Django

2021-07-30 Thread Warren Chu
post about this release in Django News :) If anyone has any questions, feel free to post here in the Django Developers forum, or via Github issues at: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django Happy Coding, Team Microsoft On Friday, 2 July 2021 at 10:00:40 UTC-7 Warren Chu wrote: > Hi All,

Re: Update - MSSQL support for Django

2021-07-02 Thread Warren Chu
ost could help get the word out as well. If you do >>> write one, submit your blog's Django-specific feed to "Community blog >>> posts" on https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ and it will get >>> picked up by many readers. You can also send it to Jef

Update - MSSQL support for Django

2021-03-19 Thread Warren Chu
Hi All, We've released the preview version 1.0b1 of the Microsoft SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django. This version supports Django 2.2, 3.0 and 3.1. What's coming up next between now and GA release? We are re-adding optional regex support, so that the regex DLL file is downloadable from a

Re: Improving MSSQL and Azure SQL support on Django

2020-12-04 Thread Warren Chu
@Florian, @Adam - Thanks for the feedback. Focusing on MSSQL as a 3rd party backend sounds good, indeed even as the long-term goal. We have no directive at this point that inclusion into Django core is mandatory, so I think we're aligned in terms of practical goals. I'm sure we'll have new pers

Re: Improving MSSQL and Azure SQL support on Django

2020-12-03 Thread Warren Chu
Thanks for the responses. @Florian - I've now reached out to the maintainers of ESSolutions as well as the relevant previous Microsoft engagement owners, thanks for the suggestion @Chris - This is excellent news indeed, we are excited to make progress beginning with some small steps @r...@whi

Re: Increasing support for Microsoft SQL Server

2020-11-26 Thread Warren Chu
ng >>> contributors and ask where resource would be best spent. >>> >>> I’m not mssql-server user myself, but first question I’d be asking is >>> where is the backend not feature-equivalent to the backends in core? (I >>> can’t tell you that I’m afra

Re: Improving MSSQL and Azure SQL support on Django

2020-11-26 Thread Warren Chu
Hi All, Microsoft has now committed ongoing resources towards improving MSSQL and Azure SQL support for Django. We're currently focused on internal compliance and forking the ESSolutions django-mssql-backend , adding testing pipelines, refac

Increasing support for Microsoft SQL Server

2020-11-03 Thread Warren Chu
Hi All, Microsoft has commissioned internal resources, of which I'm a member, to drive development and support of an open source Microsoft SQL Server backend solution for Django. This project would exist under the github.com/microsoft organization. We recognize there is an existing and active