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
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
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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Oct 16, 2008
It is my pleasure to announce that Microsoft has released an update to version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. The update to the driver is the October 2008 Cumulative Update and it contains fixes to two high priority bugs reported...
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Tags: PHPSQL ServerCumulative Update
Sep 30, 2008
I recently attended ZendCon 08 in Santa Clara, CA with David Sceppa, Program Manager for the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. We hosted a "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) session and were happy to get feedback and field lots of good questions from developers...
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Tags: PHPSQL ServerParameterized Queries
Sep 16, 2008
Brian Swan and I are here at ZendCon08 to talk with PHP developers about the SQL Server Driver for PHP. Come visit us in the Microsoft booth and say, "Hi!" We've also signed up for an un-con session Wednesday at 11:00 to get more feedback from the community...
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Tags: PHPSQL ServerZendCon