Added
- Windows support for installing the drivers with PIE (the PHP Installer for Extensions). PIE-based installation, introduced for Linux and macOS in 5.13.2, is now also available on Windows:
pie install microsoft/sqlsrvandpie install microsoft/pdo_sqlsrv.
Limitations
- No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type
- No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values
- In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work
- Always Encrypted requires MS ODBC Driver 17+
- Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported
- Issue #716 - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported
- Issue #1050 - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns
- Always Encrypted limitations
Known Issues
- Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with unixODBC < 2.3.7
- When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS
- unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages
- due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples here
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Install
- Using PIE (recommended, replaces PECL):
pie install microsoft/sqlsrv
pie install microsoft/pdo_sqlsrv - Using PECL (deprecated):
sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.13.3
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.13.3 - Windows DLLs can be found in Assets