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To: "'Christian Wenz'" <chw@hauser-wenz.de>,
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:44:27 -0700
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: CVS Account Request: cleong
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")
References: <44CB8BB8.7090202@hauser-wenz.de>

As far as I know, and I might be wrong, ASP.NET uses a managed runtime .NET
interface which does not use COM (It's the actual TDS protocol implemented
in managed code). COM is viewed as poor way to run such interfaces both for
performance reasons and resource reference counting resources.

Andi 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Wenz [mailto:chw@hauser-wenz.de] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:24 AM
> To: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] RE: CVS Account Request: cleong
> 
> Hi Andi,
> 
> ASP.NET is using OLEDB, as well, and in my experiences this 
> does not add to much penalty to communicating with MSSQL 
> (however obviously more exhaustive performance tests are 
> required). However I am wondering whether the OLEDB way would 
> still work on non-Windows PHP versions? If
> not: Having two compatible, but internally completely 
> different MSSQL extensions for win32 and non-win32 sounds 
> dangerous to me.
> 
> --Christian
> 
> > Hi Chung,
> >
> > Any idea on the performance of OLEDB? My understanding was 
> that due to 
> > it going through the COM layer, performance will be relatively poor.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Andi
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chung Leong [mailto:chernyshevsky@hotmail.com] 
> > > <mailto:chernyshevsky@hotmail.com%5D>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:37 PM
> > > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request: cleong
> > > 
> > > I would like to submit a replacement for the Win32 mssql 
> extension 
> > > that I have recently completed. The extension provides 
> the same set 
> > > of functions as mssql, but uses OLEDB to talk to 
> SQLServer instead 
> > > of DBLIB. It allows users to retrieve varchar column 
> wider than 255 
> > > and also Unicode columns as UTF-8.
> > > 
> 
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