MSSQLServer Plugin?

[John_Fatte]

What happened to the MSSQLServer plugin that was distributed with an xojo previously?

[Martin_T]

You still can find it at Extras > Database Plugin Resources and you have to copy it over to Plugins.

[Paul_Chance]

I couldn’t find “Extras” under any of the Xojo menus and I couldn’t find “Extras” on any of the Xojo web pages. Where do you start to get to “Extras”?

[Martin_T]

It’s at the applications folder where Xojo is located.

[AlbertoD]

@Paul_Chance

I couldn’t find “Extras”

Should be next to the Xojo application:

[Paul_Chance]

Got it. Thank you.

[Rick_Araujo]

Is it updated? Work for Apple Silicon?

[Tim_Parnell]

No, it’s Windows only. Link to 2023r1 documentation for the plugin. It’s also deprecated. We’re supposed to use ODBC now. I do not know if/where that got documented.

[AlbertoD]

@Rick_Araujo

Is it updated?

It is deprecated. I remember a post but there is no link to release notes or other docs. In other words, I don’t know when it was deprecated:

Why the MSSQL class has been deprecated?

I don’t know but I don’t think that the ODBC Database class can be used in place of the MSSQLDatabase in a completely transparent way. Has anyone done any tests on code already written and running?

Edit: found this

Xojo 2023r4 Release Notes — Xojo documentation

• The deprecated MSSQLServerDatabase plugin is no longer packaged in the Plugins folder. If your project still depends on this class, the plugin still exists in the Database Plugin Resources folder, found in the Extras folder.

[Rick_Araujo]

The “Extras\Database Plugin Resources” and many other folders, should include a readme (pdf and docx) with all the details of the contents of such folder.

So the MSSQLServer plugin is a “we don’t support it anymore”, maybe it works, maybe not, and it is Windows only and Intel only, use it at your own risk.