I need to connect to MSSQL database from Django 1.8 and preserve Django 1.8 (not upgrade to newer version od Django).
I installed
pip install django-mssql . ENGINE in settings.py is sqlserver_ado.
It ended with error message
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named pythoncom.
According to this page I see that django-mssql needs PyWin32.
So I returned back to my snapshot in virtual machine and tried it with
pip install django-mssql-backend and changed the ENGINE in settings.py to sql_server.pyodbc
Now I have error message
sql_server.pyodbc isn't an available database backend.
So I returned back to my snapshot in virtual machine and tried it with pip install mssql-django and ENGINE is mssql. This upgraded Django to 3.4.1.
So I returned to my snapshot of virtual machine.
How can I connect to MSSQL from Django 1.8 without upgrading Django? Or is it impossible? Why?
Django 1.8 is running on Ubuntu 18.04