By garytalmes on

Hi all,

I am helping a client with migrating an existing Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8. The D7 site is hosted on a Windows platform and uses a SQL Server back-end. It also has a few custom plugins/APIs for use with their internal system.

The objective is to migrate all this to Drupal 8 running on the same architecture. A new theme will be constructed/used so that won't be an issue.

The main problem I am having is in migrating the existing SQL Server database to the Drupal 8 database architecture, and I can't find any online documentation for this use case. It's a pretty hefty database and so building from scratch isn't a viable option.

I've been able to create a brand new Drupal 8 site on this platform, but I get lots of errors (too many to list) when attempting to migrate the D7 DB.

So I have the following questions:

- Are there any resources online for this specific use case?
- Is there a documented way of perhaps exporting just the node content and rebuilding the rest from scratch (as a fallback option).
- What is the current state of Drupal7 -> Drupal8 on Windows/SQL Server? Is this perhaps not yet fully fleshed out and tested?
- Are there any Drupal experts out there w/ specific experience in this use case? We may be looking for some contract help.

Thanks!

Gary

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