This post by Larry Garfield provides an excellent run-down of the different ways of using remote data in Drupal:
http://www.palantir.net/blog/remote-data-drupal-museums-and-web-2009
Kyle
Research Assistant
Entrepreneurship and Technology Center @ BYU
kyle.mathews2000.com/blog
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, John Fiala
<jcfiala@...> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Metzler<
metzlerd@...> wrote:
> When pulling data from external sources, I simply don't use the drupal
> database abstraction layer at all. It doesn't have an ick factor for me at
> all. I use the approach your talking about with great success at my
> university. We connect to Oracle and MSSql to get external data, and as a
> result have built quite a nice portal using drupal as the application
> development framework.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Dave
intentional or unintentional sql injection, there's no problem with
using other methods to connect to the MS SQL db. Have fun!
--
John Fiala
