Drupal 6 on Windows with MS SQL Server
Please can anyone help me. I have spent about two weeks on this now and it's driving me crazy. I'm sure it's a common question, but I can't seem to find the complete (idiot-proof!) solution anywhere.
Read moreNew Windows SQL Server Driver for PHP
A new SQL Server 2000/2005 driver (preview version) for PHP improves compatibility between the two: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/php/default.mspx
Now there's native support for PHP that will save us from having to deal with freeTDS and other things. For example, the current limitation between PHP and SQL Server is that it truncates text pulled from a varchar to 255 characters. I currently have to change anything > varchar(255) to a TEXT datatype in SQL Server to avoid this issue.
Has anyone else used this in their SQL Server setup?
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