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Have you submitted your response to the survey yet? If you have, thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. If you have not yet taken the survey OR have not finished it yet, it's time to get it completed so that your voice can be
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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. This
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Dear SQL Server developers and users: It is this time of the year when we in the SQL Connectivity product team take a step back, review the priorities and goals for the long term and identify areas that will benefit from investments. We view YOU and your
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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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It is my pleasure to announce that Microsoft has released an update to version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP. The update to the driver is the April 2009 Cumulative Update and it contains a series of targeted fixes, the majority of which
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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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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 store
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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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