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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A new technical article covering the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is now available on MSDN: Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP . This article highlights many of the features of the driver by examining portions of the Example Application that is
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We’ve seen more activity on our MSDN Forum over the past couple weeks (yay!) and there have been a few threads about how/if the SQL Server Driver for PHP supports Unicode. Rest assured, the SQL Server Driver for PHP does support Unicode. The driver expects
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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,
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A new Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is now available for download. The May CTP version (1.0.821.1) is a significant improvement over the previous CTP version (1.0.515.1 of February 2008) and it includes
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I'm pleased to announce that the May '08 CTP for the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is now available for download here . Keep in mind that this is a technology preview and is not intended for production purposes. The documentation for the driver is available
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I'm pleased to announce that the February '08 CTP for the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is now available for download here . Keep in mind that this is a technology preview and is not intended for production purposes. We look forward to your feedback
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Thanks so much for the feedback on our first Technical Preview. It's great to see people engaging with the bits at such a detailed level and the feedback we've gotten thus far has been spot on and extremely constructive. We've been hard at work digesting
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