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# LXXXIX. Microsoft SQL Server Functions

# Введение

These functions allow you to access MS SQL Server database.

# Требования

Requirements for Win32 platforms.

The extension requires the MS SQL Client Tools to be installed on the system where PHP is installed. The Client Tools can be installed from the MS SQL Server CD or by copying `ntwdblib.dll` from `\winnt\system32` on the server to `\winnt\system32` on the PHP box. Copying `ntwdblib.dll` will only provide access. Configuration of the client will require installation of all the tools.

Requirements for Unix/Linux platforms.

To use the MSSQL extension on Unix/Linux, you first need to build and install the FreeTDS library. Source code and installation instructions are available at the FreeTDS home page: http://www.freetds.org/

> Замечание: In Windows, the DBLIB from Microsoft is used. Functions that return a column name are based on the `dbcolname()` function in DBLIB. DBLIB was developed for SQL Server 6.x where the max identifier length is 30. For this reason, the maximum column length is 30 characters. On platforms where FreeTDS is used (Linux), this is not a problem.

# Установка

The MSSQL extension is enabled by adding extension=php_mssql.dll to `php.ini`.

To get these functions to work, you have to compile PHP with `--with-mssql[=DIR]`, where DIR is the FreeTDS install prefix. And FreeTDS should be compiled using `--enable-msdblib`.

# Настройка во время выполнения

Поведение этих функций зависит от установок в `php.ini`.

Таблица 1. MS SQL Server configuration options

Name | Default | Changeable | Changelog
--- | --- | --- | ---
mssql.allow_persistent | "1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM |
mssql.max_persistent | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM |
mssql.max_links | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM |
mssql.min_error_severity | "10" | PHP_INI_ALL |
mssql.min_message_severity | "10" | PHP_INI_ALL |
mssql.compatability_mode | "0" | PHP_INI_ALL |
mssql.connect_timeout | "5" | PHP_INI_ALL |
mssql.timeout | "60" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 4.1.0.
mssql.textsize | "-1" | PHP_INI_ALL |
mssql.textlimit | "-1" | PHP_INI_ALL |
mssql.batchsize | "0" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 4.0.4.
mssql.datetimeconvert | "1" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 4.2.0.
mssql.secure_connection | "0" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | Available since PHP 4.3.0.
mssql.max_procs | "-1" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 4.3.0.

Для подробного описания констант PHP_INI_*, обратитесь к документации функции ini_set().

# Типы ресурсов

# Предопределенные константы

Перечисленные ниже константы определены данным расширением и могут быть доступны только в том случае, если PHP был собран с поддержкой этого расширения или же в том случае, если данное расширение подгружается во время выполнения.

`MSSQL_ASSOC` (integer)

`MSSQL_NUM` (integer)

`MSSQL_BOTH` (integer)

`SQLTEXT` (integer)

`SQLVARCHAR` (integer)

`SQLCHAR` (integer)

`SQLINT1` (integer)

`SQLINT2` (integer)

`SQLINT4` (integer)

`SQLBIT` (integer)

`SQLFLT8` (integer)

add a note User Contributed Notes
Microsoft SQL Server Functions
ziggurism at gmail dot com
30-Jan-2007 10:53
`On *nix, of course you need to add extension=mssql.so to your php.ini. Obvious, but it took me a while to figure that out.`
tom at mazzotta dot com
18-Jan-2007 03:38
`FINNALLY got PHP to connect to MS SQL Server. Even though I read through the multitue of comments about ntwdblib.dll, etc., I still couldn't get it to work. The key was to load the Microsoft MDAC (2.8) on my IIS/PHP server. If your environement does not use the web server to host SQL as well, you will probably need to install the MDAC. My guess is that an installation of SQL Server (and/or just the client tools) on the webserver will automatically include the MDAC and you would not experience this problem.`
phpnet at pginet dot com
08-Jan-2007 12:35
`This took me a while to figure out, so I may as well pass it along to save somebody time.
If you are having trouble connecting with a DSNless connection using unixodbc with freetds, don't forget to specify the TDS_Version in your connection string.
Example (8.0 is for SQL Server 2000 exclusively):
$dsn = "DRIVER=FreeTDS;TDS_Version=8.0; TRACE=No; SERVER=someserver; PORT=someport; DATABASE=somedb; UID=somelogin; PWD=somepassword";`
be_misc_01 at flowbuzz dot com
20-Dec-2006 01:06
`Couple of notes:
When setting this up, you might notice that the unixODBC isql command likes the password wrapped in single quotes:
isql -v MyDSN MyUserID 'MyPa$$W0rd'
Additionally, if you happen to have a dollar-sign in your password (or username, or DSN) -- you must avoid using double quotes. This is a normal PHP gotcha, but worth mentioning.
Won't work:
$con = mssql_connect ("MyDSN", "MyUserID", "MyPa$$W0rd");
Will work (single quotes):
$con = mssql_connect ("MyDSN", "MyUserID", 'MyPa$$W0rd');`
davinel_lu_linvega at hotmail dot com
07-Dec-2006 03:38
`About using the MSSQL XML field-type, for Win32 users, :
1. The most simple way would be to
"SELECT [xmlfield] FROM [table]"
But this triggers the following error :
"Unicode data in a Unicode-only collation or ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC version 3.7 or earlier. (severity 16)"
2. Well, let's just read [xmlfield] as a VARCHAR.
"SELECT CAST([xmlfield] AS VARCHAR(8000)) FROM [table]"
will truncate to the 255 first characters, due to the API limitation. (see the marc at NOSPAM dot durdin dot net note)
3. So woud not that be appropriate to use the TEXT field-type ?
"SELECT CAST([xmlfield] AS TEXT) FROM [table]"
triggers :
"Explicit conversion from data type xml to text is not allowed. (severity 16)"
4. So you cannot read the VARCHAR nor the XML, and you cannot transform the XML into TEXT. In order to finally read that XML field-type, you may use this trick :
"SELECT CAST(CAST([xmlfield] AS VARCHAR(8000)) AS TEXT) FROM [table]"`
KamiKazie at comcast dot net
21-Nov-2006 07:01
`I have found that a Windows Webserver cannot connect to a Microsoft SQL Database if the webserver is running Microsoft SQL Server Agent. It gives connection and undefined function errors. Hope this helps some people.`
JinXy at skylinetop dot com
15-Nov-2006 08:37
`I had major problems trying to get the msssql extension loaded. The following fixed it for me:
1. Make sure the ntwdblib.dll file located in system32/ on the Database server is copied to system32 on the PHP serving server.
2. Uncomment the extension in the php.ini file.
3. Add the following to the registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP]
"IniFilePath"="C:\\PHP"
This tells PHP where to find the php.ini
(This is what my resolution to my problem was - only after some time did I find some reference to it).
4. Restart IIS`
anders jenbo(located)pc denmark
03-Nov-2006 12:32
`The 3 major headaicks I had while setting up MS SQL 2005, php 5.1.6 (apache 2.2 server) on Vista RC1 and getting them to comunicate.
TCP/IP and "Named Pipes Protocol" had to be enabled in the MS SQL Server. You do this in the Surface Area Configuration tool.
MS SQL 2005 should be set to mix mode login. Unless you use NT authentication in php.ini.
You can do this in duing install if you select advanced options.
If it's already installed you will have to use the SQL management Studio (properties->securety).
At first the php_mssql.dll didn't load properly (wan't showing up under phpinfo()) and gave no error message at startup, the cause of this was the ntwdblib.dll that came with php (273KB) replacing it with the one that came with MS SQL 2005 (269KB) fixed the issuse, incase you haven't installed MS SQL on your machine you can also find it on the net.`
php at scrunch dot net
19-Sep-2006 09:36
`With WinXP client, connecting to SQL Server 2005, via PHP on the command line (CLI).
If the serverr was installed with support for multiple instances, you can not connect to it, even when attempting to connect to the default instance.
Replace the ntwdblib.dll (7.00.839) provided by PHP with the one from SQL Server 2000 (8.00.194).
Otherwise you will see this message, which is not very helpful:
Warning: mssql_connect(): Unable to connect to server: ...`
jorrit at ncode dot nl
20-Jul-2006 06:14
`To connect to SQL Server 2005 you can download ntwdblib.dll from http://www.webzila.com/?wz=dll. Pick the smallest file there, the other one is French.`
antoinehurkmans at hotmail dot com
11-Jul-2006 05:40
`"if you are looking for the equivalent of mysql_list_tables for mssql, try this..."
Please use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views for this. Using the system tables for anything other than the occasional ad-hoc query is not recommended. See MSDN for more details.`
Bart
22-May-2006 09:46
`Another helpful hint in regards to SQL Server 2005 Express:
Make sure your SQL Server is set to "SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode". By default it is NOT.
1) Open "SQL Server Management Studio Express"
2) Right-click server ("machinename\sqlexpress") and select "Properties".
3) Select "Security"
4) Select "SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode"
5) Restart SQL Server.`
phil at hilands dot c-spam-om
19-May-2006 02:13
`mssql.datetimeconvert
using freebsd and freetds I ran into the dates month being rolled back
01 jan would be 00
12 dec would be 11 nov
removed
ini_set('mssql.datetimeconvert',false);
default setting is to 1 or true on the servers config
and the date issue I ran into was resolved
I don't know how the mssql.datetimeconvert setting works but if you're getting a roll back in dates might be worth making sure its on.
using ini_get when dealing with scripts that like to modify ini settings will save a headache if you use phpinfo() like me
*side note with the same settings in freetds php apache etc on a debian load I didn't have this issue even with mssql.datetimeconvert off`
thnkloud9 at aol dot com
02-Mar-2006 01:54
`I had major latency problems with DB connections using php_mssql.dll without the client tools. I found that by default it was using TCP/IP as the default connection method. Installing the SQL Server client tools and using the Client Network Utility to change my settings to use named pipes resolved this issue. You can use the Client Utility to set up a named pipes server alias and reference that in your connect string.`
jimmy dot cartrette at gmail dot com
22-Feb-2006 07:56
`"Note: DBLib is obsolete and only supports SQL Server 4.x, 6.5, 7.0 and 8.x. "
Well, ntwdblib.dll is not distributed with SQL Native Client 2005 versions anymore, but it is what you need to use the mssql family functions with php. The distributed 7.x version with php does not work, but if you download the 8.x version distributed with SQL 2000 versions and replace it in your php directory, you can suddenly use mssql functions with no problems.`
support at realone dot com
08-Dec-2005 08:04
`Actually, it's xtype, not type. So the the correct query would be something like:
SELECT name FROM sysobjects WHERE xtype = 'u' [ORDER BY whatever]`
info at pkcom do t co dot uk
01-Nov-2005 03:47
`if you are looking for the equivalent of mysql_list_tables for mssql, try this:
######## Listing table names
$query=mssql_query ( "select * from SYSOBJECTS where TYPE='U' order by NAME" , [connection resource]);
while ($row=mssql_fetch_row ( $query )){
echo "$row[0]<br>";
}
#########################`
erwin_nospam_moller at xs4all dot nl
06-Oct-2005 04:43
`php5isapi / w2000 / ISS5
If you use the above configuration (isapi) and follow the suggestion to deselect 'cache isapi application' to avoid 100% processor usage, you might end up with an oocasional error:
The remote procedure call failed and did not execute.
It happened to me every third visit to the same page.
RE-enabling caching resolved the issue.
M$ has an article about this in their knowledgebase, stating that this option should always be selected and is only there for developmentpurposes. (undocumented feature. :P)
Deselecting this option forces IIS to reload ALL relevant dll's every time a request is received in memory, also VB/ASP.`
Erick Robertson
20-Aug-2005 06:58
`Some helpful functions. Pretty simple, but very useful.
function mssql_begin_transaction() {
mssql_query("BEGIN TRANSACTION");
}
function mssql_commit() {
mssql_query("COMMIT");
}
function mssql_rollback() {
mssql_query("ROLLBACK");
}
function mssql_insert_id() {
$id = "";
$rs = mssql_query("SELECT @@identity AS id");
if ($row = mssql_fetch_row($rs)) {
$id = trim($row[0]);
}
mssql_free_result($rs);
return $id;
}`
vangoethem at hotmail.com
10-Aug-2005 05:47
`I had problems related to VARCHAR limitation to 255 characters (INSERT/UPDATE works, SELECT was truncated) using freetds driver (Linux platform).
By upgrading the TDS protocol to 8.0 (see freetds config file), I fixed the problem.`
hbzxc at 126 dot com
27-Jun-2005 02:14
`I am trying to connect to SQL Server 2000 from PHP
I bumped to following warning:
Warning: mssql_connect(): Unable to connect to server: SERVER\Portal
....... on line 5
on line 5 there is:
$db_connect = mssql_connect('SERVER\Portal', 'sa', 'my_passwd');
I did the following
1.enabled php_mssql.dll extension in PHP.ini
2.every dll is in proper place(System32 or PHP folder),including ntwdblib.dll
I search lots of profile throught web ,but no one give me proper answer to resolve it.
after a few hour ,I found the problem was caused by
ntwdblib.dll ,which version is 7.00.839 ,when I replaced old ntwdblib.dll with the new ntwdblib.dll ,which version is 8.00.194 ,all problem are solved.`
cmeerbeek[at]ymor[.]nl
13-May-2005 01:32
`We had some, read A LOT, of problems with MSSQL under Windows 2003.
We had 2 the same windows, php, php-ini, everything machines but only one could connect. Unable to connect was the error message.
Finnaly we checked the version of ntwdblib.dll and the one distributed with PHP was 7.00.... and the version of the one on the SQL Server install was 8.00.... so we copied this one in the php and apache dir and it worked.`
diegobandeira at ibest dot com dot br
08-Apr-2005 08:42
`Hello!
This code appears work fine and fast to me, like mysql or msaccess.
The server is working for an Intranet home page.
<?php
$db = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
$dsn = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=sa;Initial Catalog=tsos;Data Source=(local);Application Name=SellCar";
$db->Open($dsn);
$rs = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM states order by name asc");
while (!$rs->EOF)
{
echo $rs->Fields['name']->Value."<BR>";
$rs->MoveNext();
}
?>
Diego Bandeira.`
boonkit at gmail dot com
29-Mar-2005 01:29
`If you are having problems with freeTDS when trying to get access to unicode data from mssql, set 'tds version =7.0' at etc/freetds.conf`
tony
23-Mar-2005 07:51
`With PHP 5 on a Windows 2000/IIS platform:
I have integrated authentication enabled in IIS. I kept getting CGI timeouts on PHP pages for everyone but local administrators of the box. The event log showed that PHP could not load php_mssql.dll, php_oci8.dll, and php_oracle.dll - 'Access Denied.'
These extensions were executable by everyone, but the DLLs they depend on were not. Had to add exec permissions for everyone to c:\winnt\system32\ntwdblib.dll as well as the oracle bin directory.`
marcel at fluidleb dot com
30-Jan-2005 10:24
`I've spent the last three days wild guessing why I could not connect to MS SQLServer 2000 and so I hope this might help someone else. Microsoft has purposefully closed the 1433 tcp port and others (maybe only to external ips) of the server. You can easily check if this is the case by looking at the Event Monitor. You should see an error produced by MSSQL SERVER/MSDE that basically says what I said. It suggests downloading and installing a security patch to open up the ports (but doesn't even say which update - remember this is Microsoft).
Do download Service Pack 3a (SP3a). It does indeed fix the problem.`
Salman Majid
25-Jan-2005 09:36
`Sorry, previous message was incomplete. I used odbc functions to connect to Ms-SQL server. I was on a work station and server was not accessible for unknow reasons. mssql functions did not work there so I had to use odbc.`
Salman Majid
25-Jan-2005 09:15
`I was having problem in connecting Ms-SQL server with mssql_connect(srvr,uid,pwd). I simply created a DSN to my Database and replaced it with "server_name". i.e.
mssql_connect(dsn,uid,pwd);
it worked well`
craig at _NO_SPAM_deconstructor dot net
13-Jan-2005 12:22
`Just a quick note pertaining marcos1979ar (10/06/04) definitive installation of FreeTDS above.
When you run the following to test the installation:
===============================================================
/usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S <ip of the server> -U <User SQL>
===============================================================
And it results in the following error:
=================================================================
locale is "C"
locale charset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968"
Password:
src/tds/login.c: tds_connect: xx.xx.x.xx:1443: Connection refused
Msg 20009, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0
Server is unavailable or does not exist.
There was a problem connecting to the server
=================================================================
All I found that needed to be changed was for the configure --prefix from:
=======================================
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds
=======================================
to
=======================================
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
=======================================
Small but worth noting.`
hbinduni at hslprpol dot com
20-Dec-2004 12:15
`i found http://odbtp.sourceforge.net working fast, easy to use and to configure, and yes, it's multiplatform.`
marc at NOSPAM dot durdin dot net
18-Nov-2004 08:19
`Buried away in the mssql_field_length documentation is an important limitation that it is certainly worth knowing about *BEFORE* you do any database design:
Note to Win32 Users: Due to a limitation in the underlying API used by PHP (MS DbLib C API), the length of VARCHAR fields is limited to 255. If you need to store more data, use a TEXT field instead.
SQL Server natively supports VARCHAR up to 8000 characters. Note that TEXT fields have substantially poorer performance (and are much more limited) than VARCHAR so you may want to design your databases accordingly...
You can also work around this limitation with the following:
-- for example, with MyVarCharField VARCHAR(1000)
SELECT CAST(MyVarCharField AS TEXT) FROM MyTable`
ASWL
28-Oct-2004 05:55
`This note is for mssql under a Windows environment.
If you are having problems connecting to MS SQL using the mssql PHP extension then I would suggest that you get a copy of the latest NTWDBLIB.DLL. Copy it to the directory where PHP expects to find it's dll files.
I had an issuse whereby I was unable to connect to a MS SQL Cluster and this resolved my problem.`
Dimitri Tarassenko (mitka at mitka.us)
24-Oct-2004 12:37
`To enable MS SQL functions in PHP on Fedora Core or RHEL3 without recompiling PHP and replacing the distribution PHP packages, download and install php-mssql and freetds RPMS from
http://phprpms.sf.net/mssql`
effeese at gmail dot com
15-Oct-2004 06:28
`in relation to the "unicode problem" mentioned by andrej at dairyweb dot com dot au I suggest use andrew at power-grid dot com's solution:
if you get a "Unicode data in Unicode-only collation or ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC version 3.7 or earlier" error you can use this kind of code (in an MS environment, of course):
<?
$db = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
$dsn = "DRIVER={SQL Server}; SERVER={SERVER};UID={USER};PWD={PASS}; DATABASE={DB}";
$db->Open($dsn);
$rs = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM table");
while (!$rs->EOF)
{
echo $rs->Fields['column']->Value."<BR>";
$rs->MoveNext();
}
?>
hope it helps.`
mworku at yahoo dot com
02-Oct-2004 09:49
`If you want to utilize the freetds.conf file db parameters within
mssql_connect() function
<?
putenv('FREETDSCONF=/etc/freetds.conf');
/*
mssql_connect('MSSQL_8.0' , 'user' , 'pwd');
....
....
*/
?>
FreeTDS conf file
[MSSQL_8.0]
host = 10.254.254.10
port = 1433
tds version = 8.0`
08-Aug-2004 03:11
`For phpBB if you are having a problem with user cannot connect to database I found that gentiboard's comments were the answer.
You have to change sql secure connection to on in php.ini`
marcos1979ar at yahoo dot com dot ar
10-Jun-2004 03:07
`Red Hat 9.0 Freetds 0.62.3 Apache 2.0.49 PHP 5.0.ORC3
Instucction, that premit connect a server Linux with a server Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server.
INSTALLING FREETDS
1-. Download freetds -> www.freetds.org
2-. tar -zxvf freetds-stable-tgz
3-. cd freetds-0.62.3
4-. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds --with-tdsver=8.0 --enable-msdblib --enable-dbmfix --with-gnu-ld
Note: tdsver=8.0 if you use SQL 2000, tdsver=7.0 if you use SQL 7.0
5-. make
6-. make install
7-. /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S <ip of the server> -U <User SQL>
Note: For default User SQL is sa and the it have not password
For example: /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S 198.168.100.2 -U sa
8-. Add the next text in freetds.conf ( /usr/local/freetds/etc )
[TDS]
host = <ip of the Server with Sql>
port = 1433
tds version = 8.0
Note: If you use SQL 2000 then tds version = 8.0
if you use SQL 7.0 then tds version = 7.0
9-. Add the next text in the file /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/freetds/lib
INSTALLING APACHE
1-. Download apache www.apache.org
2-. tar -zxvf httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz
3-. cd httpd-2.0.49
4-. ./configure --prefix=/etc/httpd --enable-so
5-. make
6-. make install
7-. Configure the file -> httpd.conf ( /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf )
8-. Probe the apache: /etc/httpd/bin/apachectl start
/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl stop
INSTALLING PHP
1-. Download the PHP in this site (www.php.net)
2-. tar -zxvf php-5.0-ORC3.tar.gz
3-. cd php-5.0-ORC3
4-. ./configure --with-apxs2=/etc/httpd/bin/apxs --enable-versioning --with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds --disable-libxml
5-. make
6-. make install
7-. cp php.ini-DIST /usr/local/lib
8-. Add the next line in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
TESTING
<html>
<body>
<?php
$con = mssql_connect ("<ip of the server SQL>", "sa", "");
mssql_select_db ("<Data Base>", $con);
$sql= "SELECT * FROM <Table>";
$rs= mssql_query ($sql, $con);
echo "The field number one is: ";
echo mssql_result ($rs, 0, 0);
mssql_close ($con);
?>
</body>
</html>`
Asad Moin
28-May-2004 07:48
`I took the following steps to make PHP talk to SQL2000:
- Copy ntwdblib.dll file from your SQL server's \winnt\system32 folder to the \winnt\system32 folder on the PHP box.
- Copy the php_mssql.dll from the 'dlls/' directory in distribution package to your windows/system (Win9.x) or winnt/system32 (WinNT, Win2000, XP) directory.
- Add or uncomment the following line under Windows Extentions in your php.ini file (\winnt\php.ini): extension=php_mssql.dll
Hope that helps.`
andrew at power-grid dot com
26-May-2004 12:11
`Ok, this took me a few days to get right but for those of you out there having a hard time with getting PHP to talk to SQL 2000 this is for you! Personally for me the mssql plugin barely worked with sql 2000 and was VERY slow, here's your solution and also some good code to connect securely and quickly through ADO. I was having the worst time getting ADO to work as well, most sites do the driver part a different way.. for me the code below is the only thing that worked.
<?
$db = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
$dsn = "DRIVER={SQL Server}; SERVER={SERVER};UID={USER};PWD={PASS}; DATABASE={DB}";
$db->Open($dsn);
$rs = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM table");
while (!$rs->EOF)
{
echo $rs->Fields['column']->Value."<BR>";
$rs->MoveNext();
}
?>`
Arthur W Rudd
26-May-2004 11:37
`I'm running apache 1.3.26 and php 4.3.6 on a linux server (debian), and connecting to SQL Server 2000 via php4-mssql and Freetds.
I managed to get a connection to the SQL server, but found that when I used the function mssql_query() to pass in a Select statement containing datetime columns, I would get the following message in Internet Explorer - "The page cannot be displayed". When I removed the datetime column from the query, it worked fine, and returned a resultset.
Looked in the apache error.log file, and found the error "child pid xxxxxx exit signal segmentation fault".
After a lot of searching on the internet I stumbled upon an entry which was missing from my php.ini. I added the line "mssql.datetimeconvert = Off" to the MSSQL section of pphp.ini, restarted Apache, and the problem went away. Now I can select dates in SQL queries`
jasenko at get2net dot dk
05-May-2004 11:46
`If you get a crash trying to get currency from database with smallmoney datatype and big value (in my case it was 15000..), change datatype to money instead. The error is gone.
I'm using php 4.2.3 and MSSQL 7.0 on windows.`
andrej at dairyweb dot com dot au
28-Apr-2004 01:49
`if you are having problems with freeTDS, or like me you are trying to get access to unicode data from mssql.
try http://odbtp.sourceforge.net it is cross platform and (reportedly) faster than freeTDS. it is very stable and easy to configure.
i was originally trying to solve an error message of "Unicode data in Unicode-only collation or ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC version 3.7 or earlier" and found this solution.
hope it helps someone.`
elmer at web-axis dot net
27-Apr-2004 09:52
`Here's something that could save you 2-3 days research trying to figure out:
<?php
putenv('TDSDUMP=/tmp/tds.log');
putenv('SYBASE=/usr/lib/freetds');
putenv('TDSVER=70');
?>
If you have problems getting the mssql functions to work try these varibles. MSSQL/PHP has problems dealing with different tds versions. 7.0 seems to work well with our server version, maybe a different version would work better with yours.`
pmfa at versenet dot com
27-Apr-2004 09:26
`If you're going to use freeTDS just to access mssql databases, supply the "--enable-msdblib" switch to the freeTDS configure script when building the library. This will fix some obscure problems, like the month in a date not being displayed correctly, more information in http://www.freetds.org/userguide/config.htm.`
gentiboard2002 at yahoo dot de
19-Apr-2004 06:55
`there's no documentation of the php.ini option mssql.secure_connection.
so i have here a MS SQL 2000 Server with Windows Authentication and a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6. So it is clear that i cannot use the usual handling of a mssql_connect.
I turned the mssql.secure_connection on.
I let the Windows IIS to run under an Service Account(normal user account without any special rights) in a Windows Domain, so i do have a authenticated connection to the SQL Server...
Everything works fine without any rewrite of the code...`
19-Mar-2004 12:42
`Note: DBLib is obsolete and only supports SQL Server 4.x, 6.5, 7.0 and 8.x.`
jholland at cs dot selu dot edu
10-Dec-2003 01:37
`To enable mssql in php 4.3.3 and above on linux/unix boxes, you must put this line in php.ini
extension=mssql.so`
add a note
mssql_bind udm_set_agent_param

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