# CVS Account Request: cleong

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- Started by Frank M. Kromann on 2006-07-29T20:43:35+00:00
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## #25058 — Frank M. Kromann — 2006-07-29T20:43:35+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/25058#25058

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 
> 
> > […]
poor.
> > […]