Dear Node.JS Community, We are excited to announce a preview release of the Microsoft Driver for Node.JS for SQL Server. This new driver enables access to SQL Server and Windows Azure SQL Database from any Node.JS applications. Over the last few months...

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...

Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0!! The major highlight of this release is the addition of the PDO_SQLSRV driver, which adds support for PHP Data Objects...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, As you know, two weeks ago, we released our 3.0 drivers along with SQL Server 2012 . It was around the same time that PHP 5.4 was also released to the web, and we have received many requests from our community members...

It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP has released! This release marks another step in Microsoft’s continued commitment to interoperability. To keep up with our announcements and customer feedback...

It is my pleasure to announce that the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 has released! The SQL Server Driver for PHP team would like to thank everyone who has provided feedback and bug reports throughout the development cycle for the driver...

Today we are excited to announce the official release of WebMatrix 2! This version includes tons of new features and improvements. In this overview, we will show you how WebMatrix makes it easier to build websites with PHP and publish them. Here is...

It’s great to see that people are downloading our the February CTP build of our PHP driver and that we’re getting feedback on our new features. We look forward to more of your feedback and we’re in the process of setting up a new forum specifically for...

This entry has been re-posted from Brian Swan's blog . This is a short post to shareexciting news: Jooma! 2.5, which shipped earlier this week, now has support for SQL Server! Of course, this release contains lots more goodies, but the addition of...

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...

The recent version 2.0 of the driver has been very well received, with a fair amount of activity on our forum. Our team has been actively engaged with providing support to our developer community to adopt this version – especially the PDO driver. Based...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, We wanted to extend a massive ‘thank you’ to the community in providing feedback for our release of our Customer Technology Preview back in September, and we’ve been working hard to incorporate...

Today at DrupalCon SF 2010, we are reaching an important milestone by releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the new SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 , which includes support for PHP Data Objects (PDO). Alongside our efforts, the Commerce Guys...

We've been asked this question quite a few times and have noticed myself that this term is new to many in the PHP community. So we thought we'll take a moment to clarify. Typically, a software product release consists of the following phases: ...

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...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, thank you very much for your feedback in driving our roadmap. Adding another milestone, the PHP Driver team is very excited to announce the availability of the Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for PHP for SQL Server Community...

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...

It is our pleasure to announce the release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of the SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0! We would like to thank all who provided feedback and bug reports on our CTP1 release (April 19th) the SQLSRV (our native API)...

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...

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...

Our team is really excited to announce the new release of phpBB 3.0.7-PL1 by the phpBB community that supports SQL Server, and one can download it from the Web Application Gallery for a very easy install!! But let’s step back for a moment and provide...

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...

Following our recent inclusion to the PHP Extension Community Library , we are also excited to announce that we have also uploaded the corresponding documentation to the PHP Manual ! These are the missing pieces to our PECL extensions, and will provide...

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...

Dear PHP developers and SQL Server users, We, the PHP group in the SQL Connectivity product team, received a lot of feedback in our previous survey in Oct 2009, and we responded to the feedback by delivering a PDO driver in our v2.0 release. After...