4.2.0-preview Mac OS X/Linux/Windows

We are excited to announce the technical preview for SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers support Debian Jessie as well. Both drivers have been built and tested on Debian 8.7. In addition, starting with this release, we support sql_variant type with limitations.

Notable items about 4.2.0-preview release,

Added

• Added support for sql_variant data type with limitation (issue #51 and issue #127)
• Support drivers on Debian Jessie (tested on Debian 8.7)

Fixed

• Increased Test Coverage to 75%
• Bug fixes after running static analysis

Limitation

• No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type

Known Issues

• User defined data types
• When pooling is enabled in Linux or MAC
  • unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and MAC) might not return proper diagnostics 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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and Mac run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.2.0preview
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-4.2.0preview
• On Windows, download the DLLs from SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV PECL repository.

4.1.9-preview Mac OS X/Linux/Windows

Updated documentation for Readme regarding instructions for Linux and MAC
Updated PECL release packages. Here is the list of updates:

Added

• Azure Active Directory Authentication with ActiveDirectoryPassword and SqlPassword

Fixed

• Fixed output parameter returning garbage when the parameter is initialized to a type that is different from the output type (issue #378).

PDO_SQLSRV only

• Fixed incorrectly binding of unicode parameter when emulate prepare is on and the encoding is set at the statement level (issue #92).
• Fixed binary column binding when emulate prepare is on (issue #140).

Known Issues

• User defined data types and SQL_VARIANT (issue #127).
• When pooling is enabled in Linux or MAC
  • unixODBC 2.3.1 (Linux) and unixODBC 2.3.4 (MAC) might not return proper diagnostics 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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and Mac run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.1.9preview
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-4.1.9preview
• On windows, download the DLLs from SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV PECL repository.

4.1.8-preview Mac OS/Linux/Windows

Updated documentation for Readme regarding instructions for Linux and macOS
Updated PECL release packages. Here is the list of updates:

Added

• Connection Resiliency now supported in Windows
• Connection pooling now works in MAC

Fixed

SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV

• Added a workaround for a bug in unixODBC 2.3.4 when connection pooling is enabled.
• Fixed the issue in MAC such that which driver is loaded first no longer matters.

SQLSRV only

• Fixed sqlsrv_num_rows() when the client buffered result is null (issue #330).
• Fixed conversion warnings because of some const chars (issue #332).

PDO_SQLSRV only

• Improved performance by implementing a cache to store column SQL types and display sizes (issue #189).
• Fixed issue with the unsupported attribute PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT in connection (issue #65).
• Fixed the issue when deleting something that doesn't exist (issue #336).

Known Issues

• User defined data types and SQL_VARIANT (issue #127).
• Binary column binding with emulate prepare (issue #140).
• When pooling is enabled in Linux or MAC
  • unixODBC 2.3.1 (Linux) and unixODBC 2.3.4 (MAC) might not return proper diagnostics 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

Survey

Let us know how we are doing and how you use our driver by taking our April pulse survey:

Install

• On Linux and Mac run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.1.8preview
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-4.1.8preview
• On windows, download the DLLs from SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV PECL repository.

4.1.7-preview Mac OS X/Linux/Windows

We are thrilled to announce that the early technical preview for SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers is now available. Both drivers have been built and tested on El Capitan (OS X 10.11).

Notable items about 4.1.7-preview release,

Fixed

SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV

• Fixed null returned when an empty string is set to an output parameter (issue #308).
• Fixed memory leaks in buffered result sets.
• Fixed clang compile errors.

SQLSRV only

• Fixed debug abort error when building the driver in debug mode with PHP 7.1.
• Fixed string truncation when binding varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max), and xml types (issue #231).
• Fixed fatal error when fetching empty nvarchar (issue #69).
• Fixed fatal error when calling sqlsrv_fetch() with an out of bound offset for SQLSRV_SCROLL_ABSOLUTE (issue #223).

PDO_SQLSRV only

• Fixed wrong value returned when fetching varbinary value on Linux (issue #270).
• Fixed binary data not returned when the column is bound by name (issue #35).
• Fixed exception thrown on closeCursor() when the statement has not been executed (issue #267).

Survey

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Known Issues

• User defined data types and SQL_VARIANT (issue #127).
• Binary column binding with emulate prepare (issue #140).
• Segmentation fault may result when an unsupported attribute is used for connection.

MAC only

• If loading both sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv, the order matters (even when dynamically). For PDO_SQLSRV scripts, load pdo_sqlsrv.so first. For SQLSRV scripts, load sqlsrv.so first.
• Connection pooling does not work.

Changed

• Version number is updated to follow semantic versioning.

Install

• On Linux and Mac run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.1.7preview
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-4.1.7preview
• On windows, download the DLLs from SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV PECL repository.

4.1.6 Windows/Linux

Updated PECL release packages. Here is the list of updates:

Added

• Merged Linux and Windows code.
• Enabled connection pooling with unixODBC. To enable pooling:
  • in odbcinst.ini, add Pooling=Yes to the [ODBC] section and a positive CPTimeout value to [ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server] section. See http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/conn_pool.html for detailed instructions.

Fixed

• Fixed issues with sqlsrv_has_rows() to prevent it from moving statement cursor (issue #37).
• Fixed sqlsrv client buffer size to only allow positive integers (issue #228).
• Fixed PECL installation errors when PHP was installed from source (issue #213).
• Fixed segmentation fault with PDOStatement::getColumnMeta() when the supplied column index is out of range (issue #224).
• Fixed the assertion error (Linux) when fetching data from a binary column using the binary encoding (issue #226).

Known Issues

• The following features are not supported with connection pooling in Linux:
  • Unicode connection strings
  • sqlsrv_server_info and sqlsrv_client_info return false
  • In certain scenarios a generic error message maybe returned instead of a specific error when pooling is disabled
  • When retrieving data from columns with a data type of XML, varchar(max), nvarchar(max), or varbinary(max) no data maybe returned or the data maybe truncated depending on the length of the data in the source table.

Install

• On Linux run the commands below:

  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.1.6.1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-4.1.6.1

• On windows, download the DLLs from SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV PECL repository

4.1.5 Windows Preview

Windows drivers (4.1.5) compiled with PHP 7.0.14 and 7.1 are available. Here is the list of updates:

Added

• Added Unicode Column name support(issue #138).

Fixed

• Fixed issue output parameters bound to empty string (issue #182).
• Fixed issue with SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE when column return type is set on statement (issue #173).

Changed

• Code structure is updated to facilitate the development; shared codes between both drivers are moved to "shared" folder to avoid code duplication issues in development. To build the driver from source:
  • if you are building the driver from source using PHP source, copy the "shared" folder as a subfolder to both the sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv folders.

Thanks,
SQL Server Team

Production Release for the PHP Linux Driver for SQL Server

We are excited to announce that production release of Linux drivers is available for Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and RedHat 7. Here is the list of updates:

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). This flag can be turned on by setting its value in PDO::setAttribute to true, For example,
  $conn->setAttribute(PDO::SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE,true);
  If SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE is set to true the results from an integer column will be represented as an int, likewise, Sql types float and real will be represented as float.
  Note for exceptions:
  • When connection option flag ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES is on, even when SQLSRV_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 if SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE is off.
• 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 when double data type returned as strings using buffered queries in 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)

Thanks,
SQL Server Team

4.0.7-Linux-Preview

We are excited to announce that PECL packages for Linux SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers (4.0.7) are available. You can also find pre-compiled binaries (4.0.7) with PHP 7.0.13 for Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and RedHat 7 here.

• Fixed string truncation error when inserting long strings.
• Fixed querying from large column name.
• Fixed issue with trailing garbled characters in string retrieval.
• Fixed issue with detecting invalid UTF-16 strings coming from server.
• Fixed issues with binding input text, ntext, and image parameters.
• Ported buffered cursor to Linux.
• Note: SQLSRV_ENC_CHAR only supports ASCII characters (ASCII code 0 to127).

Thanks,
SQL Server Team

4.0.6 - Linux - Preview

We are excited to announce that PECL packages for Linux SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers (4.0.6) are available. You can also find pre-compiled binaries (4.0.5) with PHP 7.0.12 for Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and RedHat 7 here.

• Drivers versioning has been redesigned as Major#.Minor#.Release#.Build#. Build number is specific to binaries and it doesn't match with the number on the source.
• Fixed the issue with duplicate warning messages in PDO_SQLSRV drivers when error mode is set to PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING.
• Fixed the issue with invalid UTF-8 strings, those are detected before executing any queries and proper error message is returned.
• Fixed segmentation fault in sqlsrv_fetch_object and sqlsrv_fetch_array function.
• Compiler C++ 11 is enabled in config file.

Thanks,
SQL Server Team

4.1.4 Windows Preview

Thanks to the community’s input, this release expands drivers functionalities. Updated Windows drivers include some bug fixes:

• Drivers versioning has been redesigned as Major#.Minor#.Release#.Build#. Build number is specific to binaries and it doesn't match with the number on the source.
• Fixed the issue with duplicate warning messages in PDO_SQLSRV drivers when error mode is set to PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING.

Thanks,
SQL Server Team