<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">We shouldn't need any external libraries, Qt has a built in ODBC driver that you can use to connect to MS SQL. I tried it this arvo in PyQt. </span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">- Nathan<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Il 05/09/2011 14:34, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:<br>
<div class="im">> I also think that a native QGIS provider (subclass of QgsVectorDataProvider)<br>
> for MS SQL 2008 would be a great thing. The reason to go for a native driver<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> Btw. a native oracle spatial provider would also be nice to have. Oracle<br>
> spatial is (unfortunately) quite common here.<br>
<br>
</div>I guess the main obstacle is with licencing: if QGIS has to be built against non-free<br>
libraries, the resulting object may have an hybrid licence, unsuitable for distribution.<br>
>From a technical point of view, integration in the DB manager (and QGIS providers)<br>
Giuseppe is writing is IMHO the way to go.<br>
All the best.<br>
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Paolo Cavallini: <a href="http://www.faunalia.it/pc" target="_blank">http://www.faunalia.it/pc</a><br>
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