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@yitam yitam released this 03 Dec 20:01
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We are pleased to announce the next preview release for the Microsoft PHP Drivers for SQL Server, version 5.7.1-preview. This preview release has been built with PHP 7.2+ and tested on all supported platforms.

Notable items about this release include:

Added

Removed

Fixed

  • Issue #1027 - Fixed how drivers handle query timeout settings
  • Pull Request #1049 - performance improvement for fetching from tables with many columns - cached the derived php types with column metadata to streamline data retrieval

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

  • Data Classification metadata retrieval requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2.1+ and SQL Server 2019
  • 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-5.7.1preview
    sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.7.1preview
  • To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.2 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.