MSSQL Archives - Brian Cline

PHP MS SQL Truncated VarChar(255)

November 2, 2010Brian ClinePHPini_set, Microsoft, MSSQL

I don’t often have fields much longer than 256 char, but a web application I am working on makes use of varchar 512. I’m not really able to change the field to text as the PHP Docs suggest. MS SQL doesn’t allow the equal operator, and grouping on text fields, and it’s also very slow…

PHP Update Finally Depreciates PHP MSSQL driver

July 4, 2010Brian Cline1 CommentPHP, ProgrammingIIS, MSSQL, PDO, PHP, SQL Server 2008 Native Client, SQL Server Driver, WAMP Server

The biggest advantage of the change is being able to better take advantage of Microsoft SQL Server features that probably made you choose to use SQL Server in the first place.Making the change wasn’t overly difficult because I took time and wrote a simple Database Access Layer.

Brian Cline

Solution Architect skilled in Salesforce, NetSuite and JavaScript Development

Tag: MSSQL

PHP MS SQL Truncated VarChar(255)

PHP Update Finally Depreciates PHP MSSQL driver