I don't think GitHub stars are a fair assessment; the backend that was most
widely used for years has over 300:
https://github.com/michiya/django-pyodbc-azure
But that doesn't really tell much of the story, because the Django backends
for SQL Server have been so fragmented over the years. Since
I would definitely get behind official support for SQL Server. The company
I work for is all about SQL Server and not willing to consider other
options. Right now we are using the django-mssql-backend:
https://github.com/ESSolutions/django-mssql-backend which works pretty well
for our use case, but
Microsoft posted in 2015 and there was an update last April about a working
backend that claims support for 3.0:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/FbBcUCzrSZo/EoFNbR2BDgAJ
Any support in core would need clear evidence of widespread demand. I don't
think there's much demand - e.g. t
