A while back, our friends at Microsoft asked us to write a whitepaper on how to use Microsoft SQL Server from PHP through their brand-new SQL Server Driver 2.0, which you may have noticed tucked away in a corner of the download package for our September 2010 issue.
Now that we've had a chance to collect feedback and fix a few bugs here and there, we thought it'd be good to make it available to anyone—you can find it here in PDF format. Topics covered include:
- Installing SQL Server Driver 2.0
- Accessing SQL Server from PHP
- Using PDO
- Understanding joins
- SQL Azure
- Migrating from MySQL
- Troubleshooting
- …and a ton of other useful resources!
