Posted by amorphous999 on 09/29/05 04:55

James wrote:
> 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.

Are you referring to the same thing as Chung Leong? I think Chung is
referring to creating an ADO COM object in PHP, whereas you are
referring to the ADOdb Pear class. If neither works well, the point is
moot.

Are the ODBC functions in a class or are they an API?

TIA

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