[mapserver-users] Will Mapserver work with newer Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Databases

karsten karsten at terragis.net
Tue Feb 7 12:40:38 PST 2017


 Dear Seth,

Thanks so much for sharing your experiences. Also that it works well is
great. 
The naming of the driver thus does not reflect that it does suports more
than only version 2008 ;)
Hope this answer will help out others as well.

Cheers
Karsten

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth G [mailto:sethg at geographika.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 12:18
To: karsten at terragis.net; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Will Mapserver work with newer Microsoft SQL
Server Spatial Databases

Hi Karsten,

We were running a production system with MS SQL 2012 for 4 years without any
problems. We briefly moved to SQL 2014, and are now on SQL 2016 again
without issues.

Tamas Szekeres does a great job of maintaining and improving the MS SQL
driver - https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/blob/master/mapmssql2008.c

The OGR driver also works, but I found it to be much less flexible in terms
of complex SQL and adding filters.

Regards,

Seth


On 07/02/2017 21:12, karsten wrote:
>   
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to find out if MapServer (and/or OGR) will work with 
> spatial databases newer than Microsoft SQL Server 2008. I know that 
> the drivers work with that older version but did not want to promise 
> to a client that it would. At this point I am not able to test it 
> directly because I do not have access to a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or
newer to verify.
> Does anyone have experience and succeed with this or anyone who can 
> share their experiences ?
>
> Cheers
> Karsten
>
> www.terragis.net
>
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