The MSSQL extension can be linked against FreeTDS (php_dblib.dll on Win32).
This removes all the limitations that exists in ntwdblib.
- Frank
> As far as I know, and I might be wrong, ASP.NET uses a managed runtime
.NET
> interface which does not use COM (It's the actual TDS protocol
implemented
> in managed code). COM is viewed as poor way to run such interfaces both
for
> performance reasons and resource reference counting resources.
>
> Andi
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christian Wenz [mailto:chw@hauser-wenz.de]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:24 AM
> > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > Subject: [PHP-DEV] RE: CVS Account Request: cleong
> >
> > Hi Andi,
> >
> > ASP.NET is using OLEDB, as well, and in my experiences this
> > does not add to much penalty to communicating with MSSQL
> > (however obviously more exhaustive performance tests are
> > required). However I am wondering whether the OLEDB way would
> > still work on non-Windows PHP versions? If
> > not: Having two compatible, but internally completely
> > different MSSQL extensions for win32 and non-win32 sounds
> > dangerous to me.
> >
> > --Christian
> >
> > > Hi Chung,
> > >
> > > Any idea on the performance of OLEDB? My understanding was
> > that due to
> > > it going through the COM layer, performance will be relatively
poor.
