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To: Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>
Cc: 'Christian Wenz' <chw@hauser-wenz.de>, <internals@lists.php.net>
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Reply-To: "Frank M. Kromann" <frank@kromann.info>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:43:35 -0700
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: CVS Account Request: cleong
From: frank@kromann.info ("Frank M. Kromann")

The MSSQL extension can be linked against FreeTDS (php_dblib.dll on Win32).
This removes all the limitations that exists in ntwdblib.

- Frank

> 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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