mssql-django

SQL Server is actually supported in Django with this backend by microsoft https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django

The SQL Server driver for Django. Originally maintained by someone from Nebraska, Microsoft then took ownership of the project (now lives under the Microsoft GH organization). The last commit was 11 months ago. Has not supported a current release of Django for over a year now. There are almost certainly security implications for sticking on the now deprecated Django 5.0. The issues are begging for anyone at Microsoft to do something. Several pull requests sitting there with the ostensibly required updates to make it compatible with the latest Django LTS. You can find workarounds, but it is an awful situation. Now the community is probably going to have to re-fork the library back to the public for maintenance. I am clearly not a bean counter, but if Microsoft wants its database to win against the free options, they could do their best to

https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django is a fork of https://pypi.org/project/django-mssql-backend/ which is a fork of https://pypi.org/project/django-pyodbc-azure/ which is a fork of https://code.google.com/archive/p/django-pyodbc/ Looks like the community is used to fork and fix forward.