Lot's of interesting links this week...topics ranging from Microsoft's involvement in PHP/Open Source to tips on how to secure a PHP application. As usual, I hope these prove to be interesting and/or helpful... Cal Evans talks about "seeing Microsoft...

The SQL Azure team recently posted a blog about SQL Azure and the Session Tracing ID . The short story about the Session Tracing ID is that it is a new property (a unique GUID) for connections to SQL Azure. The nice thing about it is that if you have...

Recently I was able to catch up with Zach Owens, a technical evangelist here at Microsoft who is focused on getting the word out to developers about the Microsoft Data Platform. As I think you will see, catching up with Zach is no easy feat. During my...

<Sound of big breath> OK, I’m coming up for air. Very busy week…I’ve been heads down working on a number of things. BUT, I’ve still managed to come across some excellent resources related to PHP and/or Microsoft…...

Here’s this week’s list of links that grabbed my attention…check ‘em out: A new PHP/Azure lab on MSDev: "This lab is designed for developers who work with PHP and who would like to be able to run PHP applications on the Microsoft Windows Azure...

After v1.0 of the SQL Server Driver for PHP was released (back in July of 2008), the development team received lots of requests to implement “scrollable result sets” (i.e. random access to the rows in a result set) in the next release. They...

It seems to be a well kept secret that WordPress runs on a SQL Server or SQL Azure database. At least it was well kept from me until recently. (Perhaps that says something about my ability to follow current news, but that’s a topic for another day.) In...

I didn’t come across lots of interesting links this week, but I’ll make up for the lack of quantity with an abundance of quality. There continues to be lots of interesting news about PHP/SQL Server interoperability with some major PHP applications… ...

One of the things I like most about my job is that I get to work directly with our software development teams. This has obvious benefits – I have direct access to the people who can explain how and why code does what it does when I can’t figure it out...

In a recent post I took a look at how to get started with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) . In this post I’ll dive into the SSRS SDK for PHP that was recently released by the Interoperability team here at Microsoft. The SSRS SDK for PHP allows you...