Durumeric, Zakir B wrote:

We are starting to look into using Wikimedia as a type of knowledge base for our organization. We currently use MS Server and SQL Server 2000. We have setup PHP on IIS, but I was wondering if it is possible to have Wikimedia work off of MS SQL Server instead of MySQL. If not, it's not a huge problem to install MySQL server on a linux or win machine, but we would like to be able to link articles from other database interfaces we have designed in the past using MS SQL server.

Hello,

We use a database abstraction layer wich currently support mysql, postgreSQL and maybe Oracle. There is no support fro MSSQL out of the box.

So you have two solutions:

1/ code a layer for MSSQL and eventually give it back to the community (i believe it will have to be published at least under GPL).

2/ use mySQL (which is free but might not be supported by your organization).