Oct 19, 2009
Have you submitted your response to the survey yet? If you have, thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. If you have not yet taken the survey OR have not finished it yet, it's time to get it completed so that your voice can be...
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Tags: PHPSQL ConnectivitySurvey
Aug 18, 2009
Today we are excited to announce that the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft ® SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1. This version of the driver provides new capabilities for building PHP applications and support for SQL Azure as well as support...
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Tags: PHPPHP 5.3SQL ServerCTPSQL Connectivity
May 14, 2009
For those who are not already aware of the Web Platform Installer (WPI), it's a great tool for setting up a Windows machine for Web app development and deployment. You can download the beta of WPI 2.0 or the WPI 1.0 release here . PHP itself is available...
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Tags: PHPSQL ServerWPI
Apr 29, 2009
It is my pleasure to announce that Microsoft has released an update to version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP. The update to the driver is the April 2009 Cumulative Update and it contains a series of targeted fixes, the majority of which...
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Tags: PHPPHP 5.3SQL Server 2008Cumulative Update
Mar 23, 2009
One of the most common tasks of any web application involves allowing a user to ‘page’ through a large amount of data. In other words, given a large result set, the task is to present the user with a manageable subset and allow him/her to navigate through...
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Tags: PHPSQL ServerPaging
Feb 18, 2009
The SQL Server Driver for PHP team is hard at work on the version 1.1 of the extension. We've received a lot of feedback for feature requests from PHP developers through the blog, forums, the Seattle PHP meetup group, and various conferences. The most...
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Tags: PHPv1.1Scrollable resultsPHP 5.3Row countUTF-8SQL Server
Feb 11, 2009
In this post I want to demonstrate how the streaming capabilities of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP work seamlessly with the new FILESTREAM functionality in SQL Server 2008. The FILESTREAM functionality in SQL Server 2008 enables applications to store...
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Tags: PHPSQL Server 2008Filestream
Oct 30, 2008
One question we have heard a lot since releasing the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is “Does the driver work with SQL Server 2008?” The short answer is “Yes!” However, because the driver relies on the SQL Server 2005 ODBC driver to handle low-level communications...
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