Providing SQL Server support was actually attempted 2.5 years ago:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=535448
It may still be around in the code, but I remember when the person who worked on this stopped (he did spend alot of time on it), it was to be considered an experimental feature at best. He found SQL Server hard to work with due to its internal implementation (it apparently doesn't support MVCC) - he had to muck with the isolation levels and IIRC he still couldn't get it to work right and was hitting some DB locking issues. Here's his one comment on this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=535448#c2
There are no plans to make this supported in one of the upcoming releases. As of right now, I think it will probably require someone in the community taking ownership of this effort for it to go anywhere in the short term.
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 18:25 -0500, Steve Bicker wrote:
Hello,
I would like to use RHQ with SQL Server as a database backend. I understand that this is not currently supported. I have also come across this error since I am trying to use SQL Server 2008 R2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=758362 . This completely prevents me from installing using 2008 R2.
My question is whether there is a timeline for adding official SQL Server support, or for a fix of the bug referenced above. Specifically I am wondering if any of this may make it into one of the next releases?
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