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Django Backend for Microsoft SQL provides a connectivity layer for Django on SQL Server or Azure SQL DB.

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Forks: 149
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 60
Avg merge: 3d 10h
Merged PRs (30d): 19

Dominant language: Python
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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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60 open issues indexed

REGEXP_LIKE ignores literal whitespace in the pattern, so __regex with a space returns no rows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/mssql-django#615 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
supports_mars is True on non-Windows even though MARS_Connection is never added to the connection string Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/mssql-django#614 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Unsanitized identifier interpolation in introspection/schema/functions allows SQL injection Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/mssql-django#608 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
quote_name does not escape ] — breaks identifiers and enables injection Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

microsoft/mssql-django#607 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
JSON-null key lookups use OPENJSON, which requires database compatibility level 130 (fails on down-leveled 2016-2019 databases) Open

bug good first issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/mssql-django#592 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
JSONField key isnull=True over-matches JSON null values on SQL Server (also causes wrong iexact=None on Django < 6.1) Open

bug good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/mssql-django#591 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: mssql-django 2.0 will drop end-of-life Django and Python versions Open

announcement

microsoft/mssql-django#587 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2026
SQL Server error 1913 when widening a primary key referenced by a regular `ForeignKey` in the same migration that creates both models Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/mssql-django#582 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
SQL Server error 5074 when widening a referenced PK behind plain or shared-PK `OneToOneField` (mssql-django 1.8.0) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/mssql-django#581 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
[Django 6.1] JSONField key iexact=None lookup returns wrong results on SQL Server Open

area: django-compat area: orm-query bug good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/mssql-django#574 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
[Django 6.1] Support bitwise aggregations (BitAnd, BitOr, BitXor) Open

area: django-compat area: orm-query enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#572 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Replace pytz with stdlib zoneinfo and tzdata Open

area: django-compat enhancement under development

microsoft/mssql-django#534 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 3, 2026
FETCH clause dropped when slicing queryset with offset=0 on subquery-wrapped queries (Window functions) Open

area: orm-query bug

microsoft/mssql-django#525 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 11, 2026
Indexes from Meta.indexes not restored when RenameField and AlterField (type or nullability change) occur in the same migration Open

area: schema-migrations bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/mssql-django#499 · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Non-default schemas are not used/respected Open

area: schema-migrations bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/mssql-django#496 · Opened Feb 9, 2026
`unique_together` constraint not restored after field alteration when field has `unique=True` Open

area: schema-migrations bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/mssql-django#494 · Opened Feb 6, 2026
[FEATURE REQUEST] distinct on fields Open

area: orm-query enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/mssql-django#435 · 4 comments · Opened May 21, 2025
[QUESTION] Handling "Connection is busy with results from another command" Open

area: transactions-perf question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/mssql-django#426 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2025
A replase wont work when DB name exceeds 30 characters Open

area: data-types-dml bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/mssql-django#423 · Opened Feb 17, 2025
[QUESTION] Inquiry About Issue Resolution Timeline for Issue #394 Open

area: orm-query question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/mssql-django#421 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 3, 2024
Invalid collation 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AI' when database collation is 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI' Open

area: data-types-dml bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/mssql-django#420 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2024
UniqueConstraint with a NULL field doesn't throw ValidationError Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#419 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 5, 2024
[FEATURE REQUEST] Support for SQL Server database mirroring Open

area: django-compat enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/mssql-django#416 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 22, 2024
[QUESTION] Apply token-based authentication in Django 5.0.6 Open

area: connectivity-auth question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/mssql-django#414 · Opened Oct 14, 2024
Having both a CTE, a GROUP BY and parameters causes crashes. Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/mssql-django#412 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 11, 2024
Support JSONObject Open

area: django-compat enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/mssql-django#408 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2024
UUID queries are made with NCHAR Open

area: data-types-dml bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/mssql-django#406 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2024
Can't add a field to an existing model without allowing null values when specifing table schema Open

area: schema-migrations bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

microsoft/mssql-django#402 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 24, 2024
Close db connection immediately after calling a complex procedure cause db rollback Open

area: transactions-perf bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#401 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 14, 2024
Query results different on 1.5 on static query. Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/mssql-django#394 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 15, 2024
Named filter not working Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/mssql-django#386 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2024
Datetime conversion issue with USE_TZ and settings.TIME_ZONE != 'UTC'? Open

area: data-types-dml bug good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/mssql-django#371 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 28, 2024
[QUESTION] Connecting using "domain credentials" Open

area: connectivity-auth question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/mssql-django#353 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2024
MSSQL FileField max_length restrictions Open

area: data-types-dml question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#350 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2024
Support database cloning to allow Django tests to use the `--parallel` flag Open

area: django-compat enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/mssql-django#342 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 24, 2024
Error when inspecting table with nonclustered index Open

area: schema-migrations bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/mssql-django#338 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 20, 2024
Attempting to insert into a table with an SQL trigger using 1.4 will result in database engine error 334. Open

area: transactions-perf bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#333 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 16, 2024
[QUESTION] Problems with sp_prepexec Open

area: transactions-perf question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/mssql-django#328 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2024
Unexpected Arithmetic overflow error Open

area: data-types-dml bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#310 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2023
ODBC SQL type -150 is not yet supported Open

area: data-types-dml enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/mssql-django#307 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 19, 2023
Having major issues with speed Open

area: transactions-perf question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/mssql-django#300 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2023
Support for pymssql Open

area: django-compat enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#297 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2023
Using Django 4.2 with MSSQL 2019 Aggregation Containing Subquery Fails Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#296 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 25, 2023
[FEATURE REQUEST] Database errors should be translated from generic errors to PEP249-compliant errors Open

area: django-compat enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/mssql-django#289 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 3, 2023
Group by case not supported Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/mssql-django#278 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2023
I get the following error when trying to use bulk_update. Open

area: data-types-dml bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/mssql-django#276 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2023
Managed Identity & Web App for Containers Open

area: connectivity-auth enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#275 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 5, 2023
Invalid in select list because (...) not in group by clause (but it is) Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/mssql-django#223 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2023
Connection from App Service via managed identity works at first, then times out (?) Open

area: connectivity-auth bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/mssql-django#216 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 17, 2022
Cannot use cascade deletion with a self-referencing models Open

area: orm-query bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/mssql-django#201 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 16, 2022

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