Microsoft Drivers 4.0 for PHP Linux for SQL Server Released!
Dear PHP Community,
We are pleased to announce the release of the Microsoft PHP Linux Driver 4.0 for SQL Server! The new driver enables access to SQL Server 2008+, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL DW from any PHP 7 application on Linux. Going forward, we will continue to fix bugs and ship regular updates to the GitHub repository and PECL.
The major highlights of this release include: support for SQL Server 2016, PHP7 and PHP7.1, Linux (Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and RedHat 7.2), PECL packages, bug fixes, and better test coverage.
Here is a summary of the improvements since our previous release
Added
- Added
SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE
attribute support in PDO_SQLSRV driver.SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE
connection attribute flag handles numeric fetches from columns with numeric Sql types (only bit, integer, smallint, tinyint, float and real). Note for exceptions:- When connection option flag
ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES
is on, even whenSQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE
is on, the return value will still be string. - When the returned PDO type in bind column is
PDO_PARAM_INT
, the return value from a integer column will be int even ifSQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE
is off.
- When connection option flag
- Added Unicode column name support (issue #138).
Fixed
- Fixed issue with SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE when column return type is set on statement (issue #173).
- Fixed precision issues with double data types when using buffered queries with the PDO_SQLSRV driver.
- Fixed issue with buffered cursor in PDO_SQLSRV driver when CharacterSet is UTF-8 (issue #192).
- Fixed segmentation fault in error cases when error message is returned with emulate prepare attribute is set to true in PDO_SQLSRV driver.
- Fixed issue with empty output parameters on stored procedure (issue #182).
- Fixed memory leaks in buffered queries.
Limitations & Known issues
- This release contains the PHP 7 port of the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers on Linux, and does not provide backwards compatibility with PHP 5.
- Connection using named instances using '\' is not supported.
- Local encodings other than UTF-8 are not supported, and SQLSRV_ENC_CHAR only supports ASCII characters with ASCII code of 0 to 127.
- Connection pooling in PDO_SQLSRV is not supported.
- Binary column binding with emulate prepare (issue#140)
Future Plans
Going forward we plan on improving the current Linux port, expand SQL 16 Feature Support (example: Always Encrypted), build verification/fundamental tests, and fix bug fixes reported on GitHub
Getting the Production Ready Release
Check out our getting started guide to install the PHP Driver and its pre-requisites. We provide support for any bugs reported 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
April 10, 2017
When will you release "SQL 16 Feature Support (example: Always Encrypted)" ?- Anonymous
June 01, 2017
We are working on this right now. You should see some basic support in July.
- Anonymous