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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:36:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Differences in VC6 and VC9 Windows builds and MSSQL Driver.
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 31.12.2008, at 11:11, Richard Quadling wrote:

> With Microsoft having their own PHP extension for talking to MSSQL
> (http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/PHP-Driver.aspx -
> though documented to only support SQL 2005 and 2008, not 7 or 2000),
> could this become the standard alternative for php_mssql.dll (though
> not PDO as the MS extension is procedural only, leaving ODBC as the
> route for older versions?


I do not see us adding a new RDBMS specific extension that only works  
on one OS (that is not even our main target OS in practice for  
deployment) for an RDBMS that is also quite a niche solution for PHP.  
Actually the only RDBMS where I am willing to currently consider a new  
non PDO extension sqlite.

As such I do not think we should consider bundling this extension, let  
alone have it replace the php_mssql.dll.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org