Microsoft Drivers 4.2.0 Previews for PHP for SQL Server Released!

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Hi all,

We are excited to announce the technical preview for SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers. The drivers now support Debian Jessie. In addition, starting with this release, we support sql_variant type with limitations.

Notable items about 4.2.0-preview release:

Added

  • Added support for sql_variant data type with limitation (issue #51 and issue #127)
  • Support drivers on Debian Jessie (tested on Debian 8.7)

Fixed

  • Increased Test Coverage to 75%
  • Bug fixes after running static analysis

Limitation

  • No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type

Known Issues

  • User defined data types
  • When pooling is enabled in Linux or MAC
    • unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and MAC) might not return proper diagnostics information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages
    • due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples here

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Getting Drivers for PHP5 and older runtimes

You can download the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server for PHP 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 from the download center: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20098. Version 3.0 supports PHP 5.4, version 3.1 supports PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 and version 3.2 supports PHP 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6.

PHP Driver Version Supported
v3.2 PHP 5.6, 5.5, 5.4
v3.1 PHP 5.5, 5.4
v3.1 PHP 5.4

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