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Early technical preview of Microsoft Drivers 4.0 for PHP for SQL Server Released!

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Dear PHP Community,

Over the last few months our team has been working diligently toward developing this driver and preparing for a preview release so we can gather your feedback early in our development cycle. Today, we are announcing that our Microsoft Driver 4.0 for PHP for SQL Server is ready as an early technical preview. This new driver enables access to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL DW from any PHP 7 application.

The major highlights of this release is support for PHP 7 (thread safe and non thread safe support)

Future Plans

Going forward we plan on adding PDO Support, Linux port, expand SQL 16 Feature Support (example: Always Encrypted), build verification/fundamental tests, bug fixes

Getting the Preview Refresh

You can find the latest bits on our Github repository, at our existing address. We provide limited support while in preview on our Github Issues page. As always, we welcome contributions of any kind, be they Pull Requests, or Feature Enhancements. I’d like to thank everyone on behalf of the team for supporting us in our endeavors to provide you with a high-quality driver. Happy downloading! 

Meet Bhagdev (meetb@microsoft.com)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2016
    Hmmm... 64-bit support is still not on the road map? ;-P
    • Anonymous
      May 31, 2016
      Preview includes 64-bit drivers for PDO_SQLSRV and SQLSRV :)
  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2016
    Hope the RTM release will be available soon!