Posted by James on 09/29/05 01:43

Do not use the MSSQL functions -- they fucking suck, filled with errors
and you'll struggle to get long text values out of fields over 255
characters in length. I beat my head on them for weeks before I
abandoned MS SQL Server as a PHP database. ADOdb is leaking as Chung
Leong said but the ODBC functions are now performing well for me .....
they appear to be the only stable alternative.

If you are using the MS SQL Server functions you supposidly bypass the
255 character issue however you'll need some extra software to install
and I never managed to get them running.

It is worth noting that this is not the fault of PHP but the SQL Server
itself -- you can trip similar issues using ASP.

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