Hi, The php group and I (the maintainer of the MSSQL and other extensions) takes MSSQL serious! In fact the latest version of the extension can be compiled under Windows, Linux and Unix with full support for stored procedures. Under *nix, by using the FreeYDS library, you will also get support for nvarchar and ntext columns and the old 256 byte limitation on char/varchar is gone. I'm working on an implementation of this for Win32 as well. The current limitations are not caused by php byut by the library provided by Microsoft. Microsoft wants to promote OLEDB and not the older DBLIB style libraries shared with Sybase. - Frank > Yes, and the fact is that MySQL and Postgresql are not taken serious > by many in the commercial world, especially in the U.S. And, while we > might laugh at the MS-SQL / MySQL debate, there are many companies and > government agencies that do not feel that MySQL is ready for mission > critical applications. Microsoft is politically pushing .NET bigtime in > the States, and along with it comes MS SQL Server. IF I was not able to > get ODBTP to work, PHP would have been canned. If PHP does not take MS > SQL serious, then others will not take PHP serious. > > -- bob > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, heilo wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Yes, this really would be scary :) - no i was just exagurating; in fact i > > use mysql/postgres - but i know enough people who are bound to > > windows-systems telling me their (partly incredible) stories all the time... > > > > So i thought it would be great if there was a better support for those dbs > > too? > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
