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5/11/2012 5:54 AM
 
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Hi

I have been developing a website for my company, advocating the use of DNN. Building on DNN has been very simple and fast.

Then, we it came to getting production servers ready I found out that ms sql server is extremely expensive! I'm afraid my company will scrape the project and look at a totally new approach, due to the cost of MS SQL server.

Does DNN support other databases, in particular, MySQL or Postgresql?

If not, can anyone suggest legit alternatives to avoid the enormous cost of MS SQL?
 
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5/11/2012 4:16 PM
 
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no, DotNetNuke only works with microsoft sql server databases - however there are a number of versions, one of which may be a better fit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsof... )  the express edition is free, it has some limitations on RAM/CPU but can easily support a site with many thousands of page requests a day(e.g. this guy has a lot of usage and runs 20 databases on 1 sql express instance - http://www.webmasterworld.com/ecommer... )

Another option is the web edition, which is ~ 10% of the cost of the standard edition, though I believe you pay a monthly charge rather than a fixed 1 off purchase price - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72...

If you do use sql express then make sure and get the advanced version with the tools (2nd last option on http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en...) - aside from the CPU/RAM/database size limitations it's basically identical to sql server standard.

Finally, you can move your sql server databases between editions as long as they're moving to the same version of higher (e.g. sql server express 2010 moves to sql server 2010 or sql server 2012 easily etc.)

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5/11/2012 4:26 PM
 
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You've got a couple different options, but I don't think MySQL or Postgres is one of them.

If you're company is open to is, you could use a hosting provider (like PowerDNN) and that would give you SQL.

Another option is using SQL Express, which is the free edition, but last I checked there are a few limitations to that:
1. There is a 10GB (SQL Express 2K8 R2) per database limit
2. No SQL Server Agent (which means no maintenance plans/backups unless you use a custom script)
3. Uses max 1GB of RAM

Although it's not recommended that you use it for production, it generally works fine for small to medium sized sites.

Hope that helps.

Justin

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