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OMG this *(&^#*%^# me OFF! Please help...
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:25 pm
by rathlon
After 7 months of single handedly developing a database driven web-site for my office, I discover that MySql is not "sancitioned" as a safe product to use. Suggestion from our IT folks was to use Microsoft SQl 7.0. No joy on having them anaylze MySql for use either, we have an old school IT lead who still believes in the paper ways. Anything new is a hint to the next German uprising. SOOOOOOO, has anyone used PHP to talk to MS SQL 7.0 or earlier versions before? Is it much more difficult? Any resources that you can point me to? Books, books are my friends, any books that you can reccommend would be greatly appreciated. Someone please help...
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:38 pm
by rathlon
perhpas I should have ellaborated more. What other solutions would you guys suggest? I'm not limited to just php. I am up for learning anything.
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:47 pm
by mydimension
not all that familiar with using MS SQL but i dont think it is all that different PHP-wise from using MySQL.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mssql.php should provide at least a starting ground with function usage and other such things.
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:44 pm
by zebrax
I had the exact same thing happen to me in the past.. At the time the mssql functions were still buggy. I ended up using ODBC. I had to change a bit of code, but had no problems other wise. Good luck!
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:32 am
by fractalvibes
I would be very suprised that after this past weekend they are not scurrying back to your MySql solution.
Don't know the pricing, but since you are considering SqlServer, then DB2 UDB may be within range, since neither is cheap. Something to check out, anyway...
Phil J.