[Qgis-developer] Native MS SQL 2008 Driver for QGIS

[Nathan Woodrow]

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.

- Nathan

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:

> Il 05/09/2011 14:34, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:
> > I also think that a native QGIS provider (subclass of
> QgsVectorDataProvider)
> > for MS SQL 2008 would be a great thing. The reason to go for a native
> driver
>
> > Btw. a native oracle spatial provider would also be nice to have. Oracle
> > spatial is (unfortunately) quite common here.
>
> I guess the main obstacle is with licencing: if QGIS has to be built
> against non-free
> libraries, the resulting object may have an hybrid licence, unsuitable for
> distribution.
> >From a technical point of view, integration in the DB manager (and QGIS
> providers)
> Giuseppe is writing is IMHO the way to go.
> All the best.
> --
> Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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