> Sorry, I meant a wrapper written in PHP that extends PDO but uses the new > driver's functions. Unfortunately, my C skills are not quite where they need > to be to write a PHP extension :( > > I also just realized that the new driver uses the ODBC client for the > underlying low-level communication. Is there any benefit to using this new > driver as opposed to the PDO_ODBC driver to connect SQL Server? > > Alvaro > The only difference I've come across is streams + lobs work properly in the new driver, they don't work quite right with PDO_ODBC. So if you're doing lobs and want to use them as php streams, use the new driver. However PDO is getting a fix for this bug... this may not be true in the future. Otherwise, no there is no benefit. Thanks, Elizabeth Smith -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
