Comments on: Enterprise Drupal http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/22/enterprise-drupal/ Ken Rickard's notes about what he's doing Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:19:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Ken Rickard http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/22/enterprise-drupal/#comment-22510 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:37:58 +0000 http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/22/enterprise-drupal/#comment-22510 There are generally two paths for wider db support: Write a db abstraction layer (like <a href="http://edin.no-ip.com/html/?q=ready_testing_new_oracle_driver_drupal" rel="nofollow">Edison Wong</a> and the Oracle port team), or use Drupal functions to integrate with external data. See <a href="http://drupal.org/node/131524" rel="nofollow">this talk I gave</a> for some ideas. I should be revising that talk for Barcelona. There are generally two paths for wider db support: Write a db abstraction layer (like Edison Wong and the Oracle port team), or use Drupal functions to integrate with external data.

See this talk I gave for some ideas. I should be revising that talk for Barcelona.

]]> by: Matt http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/22/enterprise-drupal/#comment-22509 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:26:38 +0000 http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/22/enterprise-drupal/#comment-22509 This is exactly why it is desirable to have wider db support. I can't imagine how much I could do w/ an intranet/extranet db that had greater integration with our legacy db (in our case, MSSQL). This is exactly why it is desirable to have wider db support. I can’t imagine how much I could do w/ an intranet/extranet db that had greater integration with our legacy db (in our case, MSSQL).

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