I was banging my head against a wall for a while today trying to track down a issue that wasn't letting my PHP 5.2.8 app do a basic connection to SQL Server 2008. I kept getting the following error. SQLSTATE: IM002 message: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver...

It's been a while since my last post and this one isn't going to be able FileStream API's, SQL Data Services or other SQL Server features... Continue reading at your own risk :) I started off my software career working as a Partner in a small web-application development company in Marquette, Michigan...