I am so sick with the CI framework already, because I can't even set multiple connection for MSSQL Server. I've found a forum where had been described how to set multiple connection, but it didn't work well for me - the mssql_query statement throws an error that the link identifier is not the MSSQL-Link resource etc. I've done something like this:
1) set the database.php - database configuration file:
$active_group = 'suburb';
$active_record = FALSE;
$db['suburb']['hostname'] = 'XXXXXXXX';
$db['suburb']['username'] = 'XXXX';
$db['suburb']['password'] = 'XXXXXXX';
$db['suburb']['database'] = 'XXXXXXX';
$db['suburb']['dbdriver'] = 'mssql';
$db['suburb']['dbprefix'] = '';
$db['suburb']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
$db['suburb']['db_debug'] = TRUE;
$db['suburb']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['suburb']['cachedir'] = '';
$db['suburb']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
$db['suburb']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
$db['suburb']['swap_pre'] = '';
$db['suburb']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['suburb']['stricton'] = FALSE;
$active_group = 'default';
$active_record = FALSE;
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'XXXXXX';
$db['default']['username'] = 'XXXX';
$db['default']['password'] = 'XXXXXXXX';
$db['default']['database'] = 'XXXXXX';
$db['default']['dbdriver'] = 'mssql';
$db['default']['dbprefix'] = '';
$db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['db_debug'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['default']['cachedir'] = '';
$db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
$db['default']['swap_pre'] = '';
$db['default']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['stricton'] = FALSE;
2) call the load dbs function:
$this->suburbDb = $this->load->database('suburb', true);
3) created the query:
$res = mssql_query("
SELECT TOP 100 ID
FROM Table", $this->suburbDb);