Drupal 7 completed a 3-year journey earlier this year by exiting beta stages and declaring itself ready for prime time . Our team (the SQL Server Drivers for PHP team) was fortunate to be part of that journey by working closely with the Drupal community...

After the obvious interest at last month's JumpIn Camp with the XML features of SQL Server, Brian Swan has written a great post on consuming result sets as XML in PHP. Go check it out!

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 2 years, we completed surveys that focused on the broad SQL Connectivity components...

This entry has been cross-posted from the Windows Azure Team Blog . As the SQL Azure July 2011 Service Release is being rolled out, we want to advise you of an important consideration for your application logic. Some customers may be programmatically...

On behalf of the Microsoft PHP Driver for SQL Server team, it is my great pleasure to announce that we have published both SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV to the PHP Extension Community Library ! You can find our packages at: http://pecl.php.net/package/sqlsrv...

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog . Next week, Microsoft will host its second SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , and I’m very excited to be a participant (take a look at the list (below) of PHP applications and frameworks that will...

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog . As I arrived yesterday for day 4 (the last day) of the SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , one participant said to me,“I’m starting to feel worn down.” I think that was the general sentiment...

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog . On the heels of today’s announcement at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference of the availability of SQL Server code name “Denali” CTP3 , the SQL Server Migration...

The SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , was scheduled from Nov 16 th thru 19 th at an excellent facility not too far from Microsoft's main campus with the purpose of bringing key PHP developers and SQL Server engineers together with the goal of supporting SQL Server...

Have you responded to our survey yet? If you already have, then we thank you for taking the effort and appreciate the feedback. The survey will automatically close on Monday August 16th @ 5:00 PM Seattle time , so if you haven’t started it (or haven’t...

Hi everyone, We've been overwhelmed with the level of interest from the community since our first preview release of the Microsoft Driver for Node.js for SQL Server. We've had a total of 82 issues created, with 24 bugs closed, and 18 questions asked...

This has been re-posted from the Microsoft Interoperability blog . The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure...

This entry is a re-post of Brian Swan 's entry on The Silver Lining blog. In my last post , I looked at the session handling functionality that is built into the Windows Azure SDK for PHP , which uses Azure Tables or Azure Blobs for storing session...

We are very excited to re-post the recent announcement for Windows Azure Mobile Services ! Read up on this at Scott's blog : I’m excited to announce a new capability we are adding to Windows Azure today: Windows Azure Mobile Services Windows...