---
title: "Mark Brown on Microsoft SQL server and Drupal 7"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/mark-brown-on-microsoft-sql-server-and-drupal-7"
type: episode
date: 2010-05-27
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Mark Brown on Microsoft SQL server and Drupal 7

#  Mark Brown on Microsoft SQL server and Drupal 7 

  

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[Mark Brown](http://sf2010.drupal.org/community/attendees/mark-brown) is a Senior Product Manger on the Web Platform team at Microsoft and attended DrupalCon with some news to announce. Not only was Microsoft a Platinum Sponsor of this year's DrupalCon, but they announced that they were releasing a [SQL Server Driver for PHP](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?FamilyID=df4d9cc9-459c-4d75-a503-ae3fceb85860&displaylang=en) as well as that they have been [working with the Commerce Guys](https://commerceguys.com/about/news/drupal-7-sql-server-preview) on creating a [Drupal 7-specific driver for SQL Server](http://drupal.org/project/sqlsrv) that integrates with the [new PDO database abstraction layer in Drupal 7.](https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupal-voices-24-larry-garfield-new-database-layer-drupal-7) This will make it easier to deploy Drupal on a Microsoft stack of a Windows Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), and SQL Server.

Brown talks about interfacing with the Drupal community and talks about how this project came about from a lot of requests from their customers to make it easier to be able to integrate their Microsoft products with various web application platforms such as Drupal.

Brown also talks about a landing page on Microsoft's site that has more information for how to get up and running with a full Windows stack and Drupal 7 that is located at: http://www.microsoft.com/web/drupal/

On this page, there is a [development-preview package of Drupal 7](https://commerceguys.com/files/drupal-7.x-sqlsrv-bundle-preview1.zip) that includes the PDO for SQL Server, the SQL Server Drupal Module located in the includes/database directory, WinCache 1.1 Beta, a bunch of applied patches, and a few other Drupal modules. It's not quite not production-ready yet, and is advised to only use on test machines.

Check out this DrupalCon presentation for more information on [Drupal 7 and Microsoft SQL server.](http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/drupal-7-and-microsoft-sql-server)