Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server Team Blog

All about the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server, SQL Server and PHP (SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV)

Available Today: Preview Release of the SQL Server [C/C++] ODBC Driver for Linux

This has been re-posted from the SQL Server Team Blog. In our continued commitment to...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 11/28/2011

Using SQL Azure to Store PHP Session Data

This entry is a re-post of Brian Swan's entry on The Silver Lining blog. In my last post, I looked...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 10/19/2011

Announcing Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux

Greetings Developer community: We heard yesterday and today at the PASS conference about the...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 10/13/2011

Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for PHP for SQL Server Released!

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, thank you very much for your feedback in driving our roadmap....

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 09/23/2011

Annual SQL Connectivity Customer Survey [Date extended]

Greetings to the Developer community: Thank you very much for an overwhelming response on our...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 09/07/2011

Checking Your SQL Azure Server Connection

This entry has been cross-posted from the Windows Azure Team Blog. As the SQL Azure July 2011...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 08/29/2011

Annual SQL Connectivity Customer Survey

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 08/15/2011

Consuming SQL Server Result Sets as XML with PHP

After the obvious interest at last month's JumpIn Camp with the XML features of SQL Server, Brian...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 08/01/2011

PHP Driver for SQL Server now in the PHP Manual

Following our recent inclusion to the PHP Extension Community Library, we are also excited to...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 07/13/2011

PHP Driver for SQL Server Feature Feedback

We are currently hard at work on the development on our next version of the PHP Driver for SQL...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 07/13/2011

SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.1 Supports SQL Server v-Next

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog. On the heels of today’s announcement...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 07/12/2011

SQL Server JumpIn! Camp Wrap Up

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog. As I arrived yesterday for day 4 (the last...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 06/27/2011

Looking Forward to Next Week’s SQL Server JumpIn! Camp

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog. Next week, Microsoft will host its second...

Author: Jonathan Guerin Date: 06/15/2011

Release to PECL

On behalf of the Microsoft PHP Driver for SQL Server team, it is my great pleasure to announce that...

Author: dpblogs Date: 06/03/2011

I should precede the following post with an introduction. I recently started at Microsoft as the...

Author: dpblogs Date: 04/29/2011

Drupal 7 and SQL Server – our PDO journey

Drupal 7 completed a 3-year journey earlier this year by exiting beta stages and declaring itself...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 01/25/2011

Update release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server

The recent version 2.0 of the driver has been very well received, with a fair amount of activity on...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2010

Broader survey for all SQL Server customers

First, a big thank you to all who responded to our previous survey we posted this summer. We had a...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 10/17/2010

Our survey is about to close

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Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2010

Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 released!!

Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 08/04/2010

Another opportunity to provide feedback

Dear PHP developers and SQL Server users, We, the PHP group in the SQL Connectivity product team,...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2010

An update on our CTP2 release

It's been about two weeks since we released our CTP2 for the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers. While...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2010

SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP2 is now released

It is our pleasure to announce the release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of the SQL...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 06/15/2010

What is a Community Technology Preview (CTP)?

We've been asked this question quite a few times and have noticed myself that this term is new to...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2010

Plans for our next milestone

We have seen some increase in activity with more people downloading our driver and either reporting...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 06/03/2010

Need your feedback on our new SQL Server Connectivity portal

SQL Server, as a database product, has grown over the years and there are multiple ways to connect...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 05/27/2010

Not much activity on PDO, does this mean "it just works" and we ship it?

Time and time again we have been told that Microsoft needs to provide a good PDO driver as this is...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 05/07/2010

SQL Server is now supported by phpBB!

Our team is really excited to announce the new release of phpBB 3.0.7-PL1 by the phpBB community...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 05/06/2010

SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP adds PHP's PDO style data access for SQL Server

Today at DrupalCon SF 2010, we are reaching an important milestone by releasing a Community...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 04/19/2010

Helloooooooooooo, is anybody here?

Well, to start off with, we got a great response to our PHP survey and …. But wait, first things...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 03/25/2010

The survey is about to close...

Have you submitted your response to the survey yet? If you have, thank you for taking the time to...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2009

SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 is now available

It is my pleasure to announce that the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 has released! The SQL...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 10/07/2009

We would like to hear your opinion....

Dear SQL Server developers and users:It is this time of the year when we in the SQL Connectivity...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 10/02/2009

SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 Community Technology Preview is now available

Today we are excited to announce that the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft® SQL...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2009

The SQL Server Driver for PHP is now available in the Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta

For those who are not already aware of the Web Platform Installer (WPI), it's a great tool for...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 05/14/2009

April 2009 Cumulative Update Now Available!

It is my pleasure to announce that Microsoft has released an update to version 1.0 of the Microsoft...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 04/29/2009

Paging Data with the SQL Server Driver for PHP

One of the most common tasks of any web application involves allowing a user to ‘page’ through a...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2009

Working on version 1.1 of the SQL Server Driver for PHP

The SQL Server Driver for PHP team is hard at work on the version 1.1 of the extension. We've...

Author: Ashay Chaudhary [MSFT] Date: 02/18/2009

Using the FILESTREAM Functionality of SQL Server 2008

In this post I want to demonstrate how the streaming capabilities of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for...

Author: dpblogs Date: 02/11/2009

Working with the New SQL Server 2008 Data Types

One question we have heard a lot since releasing the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is “Does the...

Author: dpblogs Date: 10/30/2008

October 2008 Cumulative Update Now Available!

It is my pleasure to announce that Microsoft has released an update to version 1.0 of the Microsoft...

Author: dpblogs Date: 10/16/2008

How and Why to Use Parameterized Queries

I recently attended ZendCon 08 in Santa Clara, CA with David Sceppa, Program Manager for the SQL...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/30/2008

Greetings from ZendCon08!

Brian Swan and I are here at ZendCon08 to talk with PHP developers about the SQL Server Driver for...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/16/2008

New SQL Server Driver for PHP Whitepaper Available

A new technical article covering the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is now available on MSDN:...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/29/2008

Unicode Support and Endianness

We’ve seen more activity on our MSDN Forum over the past couple weeks (yay!) and there have been a...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/29/2008

A new look to the blog

A number of people contacted me to say that the previous color scheme made the blog difficult to...

Author: dpblogs Date: 07/30/2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP v1.0 has released

It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP has...

Author: dpblogs Date: 07/28/2008

What's new in the May 2008 CTP?

A new Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is now...

Author: dpblogs Date: 06/05/2008

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