Motion: Include MS SQL Server 2008 Native Driver in 5.2

[Steve Lime]

I guess I'm with Dan on this. Doesn't need to be a novel...

Steve

>>> On 11/13/2007 at 7:14 AM, in message <4739A344.8030001 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM> wrote:
> Howard Butler wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> I would like to motion to include a native driver for Microsoft SQL 
>> Server 2008 in time for the MapServer 5.2 release.  The driver was 
>> developed by I.S. Consulting, it exists (and would continue to) as a 
>> plugin, links against the ODBC libs, and is Windows-only (there's a 
>> chance it could be made to work elsewhere).  I will take responsibility 
>> for maintenance of the driver for the foreseeable future (patches 
>> graciously accepted, however :) ).
>> 
>> For the corresponding MapServer 5.2 MS4W release, I expect that we will 
> 
> Personally I'd like to see a RFC for any new functionality. The RFCs are 
> not useful only for controversial changes, they are also useful to 
> document simple feature additions when we publish betas and new releases 
> (and when documentation lags behind).
> 
> For instance, what does the connection string look like? Provide a few 
> examples of layer definitions. Are there restrictions on the supported 
> geometry types, MSSQL versions, projections, etc? Are there performance 
> issues to be aware of?
> 
> I -0 on the proposal without RFC. (And would be +1 with a RFC.)
> 
> Daniel