Using WordPress With MS SQL Instead of MySQL

  • Yojance Rabelo

    (@yojance)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Is it possible to use WordPress with MS SQL as the database instead of MySQL? I found some old topics here and couldn’t consider that information reliable.

    Has anyone done this in the past? Can you shed some light on how difficult it was and if it’s prone to have more errors?

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    It’s not really recommended or supported, and I don’t see any recent guides about it, so I’d say it’s also probably no longer possible.

    WordPress requires MySQL, and pretty much any plugin which requires database access is also written with MySQL in mind.

    Is there any particular reason as to why you can’t use MySQL?

    Thread Starter Yojance Rabelo

    (@yojance)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi James,

    Thanks for clarifying that to me. I was thinking the same but since I haven’t used MS SQL I wanted to get an opinion from someone more educated on the subject than me.

    The customer really wanted to see if we could run WordPress (Front-end of their site) on a MS SQL database since the client portal (Back-end of their site) is powered by MS SQL.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    There’s always a possibility that you could tie the two together trough a custom-built API, but you’ll definitely need to run WordPress through MySQL in that case.

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