Posted by "Frank M. Kromann" on 10/08/05 09:28

> On Thu, October 6, 2005 8:29 pm, Rick Emery wrote:
> > Knowing that I'm not the only one to want to connect to Microsoft SQL
> > Server on Windows from PHP and Apache on Linux, I'm seeking advice.
>
> You may want to consider using the Sybase drivers if they are
> available as up-to-date RPMs.
>
> Last time I checked, several years ago, they worked better/faster than
> the mssql drivers.
>

The Sybase extension can be linked agains the commercial Sybase libs or
the same FreeTDS lib used for the mssql extension, so there is not a big
difference there. The mssql extension implements about twice as many
functions as the sybase extension.

- Frank

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