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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I might need to try this, I’ll keep you informed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Many thanks Daniel!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Christina</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pgrouting-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:pgrouting-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Kastl<br><b>Sent:</b> 20 June 2012 15:51<br><b>To:</b> pgRouting users mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pgrouting-users] pgRouting with SQL server?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Christina,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>pgRouting requires PostGIS and PostgreSQL, so you can't install it on a different database management system.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Eventually it's possible to use a new PostgreSQL feature called "Foreign data wrappers" [1] [2] to access data outside PostgreSQL, which allows to treat the data source like a table. But I haven't tried this yet and can't tell it works for SQL Server nor how it performs.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Daniel<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>[1] <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ddl-foreign-data.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ddl-foreign-data.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>[2] <a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers">http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Mitsakou, Christina <<a href="mailto:christina.mitsakou@kcl.ac.uk" target="_blank">christina.mitsakou@kcl.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi everyone<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I would like to ask if any pgRouting user has any experience on the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p>1)<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Would it be possible to use pgRouting with other database management system rather than PostgreSQL (e.g. SQL server)?<o:p></o:p></p><p>2)<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>If we install on a server both systems (PostgreSQL, SQL server) would it produce any server failure?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I appreciate your comments on the above points.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>Christina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Pgrouting-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Pgrouting-users@lists.osgeo.org">Pgrouting-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pgrouting-users" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pgrouting-users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan<br>eMail: <a href="mailto:daniel.kastl@georepublic.de" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4263AB'>daniel.kastl@georepublic.de</span></a><br>Web: <a href="http://georepublic.de/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4263AB'>http://georepublic.de</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>