Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Microsoft Drivers 5.10.0 Beta 1 for PHP for SQL Server Released

We recently released the next beta of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server, version 5.10.0-beta1. This beta release has been built with PHP 7.3+ and tested on all supported platforms.

 

Notable items about this release include:

 

Added

Removed

  • Dropped support for Ubuntu 16.04

Fixed

  • Issue #1244 - use lower case for object names for PDO::lastInsertId() - pull request #1245 by morozov
  • Pull request #1251 - simplified implementations of last insert id and quote
  • Issue #1258 - updated pdo_sqlsrv_get_driver_methods as per documentation - pull request #1259
  • Pull request #1260 - cleaned up redundant code
  • Issue #1261 - simplified get_field_as_string and made it more robust - pull request #1265
  • Pull request #1262 - simplified parse_param_array in sqlsrv
  • Pull request #1267 - replaced the obsolete MACRO ZVAL_NEW_ARR with array_init
  • Pull request #1275 - fixed warning compiling core_stmt.cpp by mlocati
  • Pull request #1288 - applied mask to pdo quote for binary inputs
  • Pull request #1290 - updated list of supported processor architecture

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

  • This release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver.
  • 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

  • On Linux and macOS run the commands below:

 

 

sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.10.0beta1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.10.0beta​1

 

 

  • To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.3 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.
  • Direct downloads for released binaries can also be found at the Github release tag.

 

David Engel

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