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Architecture / Installation

Architecture / Installation


Remove mssql from the installation db list

posts: 4 Australia

Tikiwiki does not support mssql, so why is it still in the db list when choosing options during installation?

If a user is mislead into believing tikiwiki supports mssql, because it appears in the db selection list during install, then it's a rude shock to discover a few clicks later that there isn't even an mssql db schema included in the install package — at that point the tikiwiki install process simply dies when it can't find it.

To save confusion and disappointment, please do the sensible thing and remove it. Or, as an alternative, throw in some other non-supported db platforms to really confuse people during install. rolleyes

meanwhile, I'll continue to use PHPBB + PMWIKI as our departmental groupware solution and hope that tikiwiki gets around to supporting odbc or properly implements database abstraction.

posts: 2881 United Kingdom


> To save confusion and disappointment, please do the sensible thing and remove it. Or, as an alternative, throw in some other non-supported db platforms to really confuse people during install. rolleyes

Being honest ONLY mysql is fully support, the others are all hit and miss and cannot be gaurenteed to work 100%. :-)

However I did the mssql support in 1.8 and through a small change in the .sql convertscripts it still works on 1.9's.

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> meanwhile, I'll continue to use PHPBB + PMWIKI as our departmental groupware solution and hope that tikiwiki gets around to supporting odbc or properly implements database abstraction.

Good luck with your chosen solution. You can configure in db/tiki-db.php to use ODBC connection, you just have to build the connection string yourself, and populate the database yourself. ODBC is slower that using the PHP db module access.

Damian


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