Part 1: Installation & Configuration of SQL Server Driver for NodeJS.
This EXPERIMENTAL article works only if you’re connecting to SQL Server with Drupal in Linux. If you use Windows for your Drupal, that’s another story (a lot simpler). Also if the Drupal module DBLIB is mature enough (pushed to main project) than this article might be obsolete.
Table of Content:
- Concept
- Why NodeJS
- Some drawbacks using this method
- System used for this build
- Requirements
- Driver Installation
- Driver Testing
- Part 2: Installation & Configuration of SSL for NodeJS.
Concept
Drupal communicates with SQL Server via a bridge in the form of custom module and custom server. This module will send query to the server and receive the results for further processing.
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