Hi everyone, We've been overwhelmed with the level of interest from the community since our first preview release of the Microsoft Driver for Node.js for SQL Server. We've had a total of 82 issues created, with 24 bugs closed, and 18 questions asked...

Today we are excited to announce the official release of WebMatrix 2! This version includes tons of new features and improvements. In this overview, we will show you how WebMatrix makes it easier to build websites with PHP and publish them. Here is...

We are very excited to re-post the recent announcement for Windows Azure Mobile Services ! Read up on this at Scott's blog : I’m excited to announce a new capability we are adding to Windows Azure today: Windows Azure Mobile Services Windows...

Dear Node.JS Community, We are excited to announce a preview release of the Microsoft Driver for Node.JS for SQL Server. This new driver enables access to SQL Server and Windows Azure SQL Database from any Node.JS applications. Over the last few months...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, As you know, two weeks ago, we released our 3.0 drivers along with SQL Server 2012 . It was around the same time that PHP 5.4 was also released to the web, and we have received many requests from our community members...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, We wanted to extend a massive ‘thank you’ to the community in providing feedback for our release of our Customer Technology Preview back in September, and we’ve been working hard to incorporate...

This has been re-posted from the Microsoft Interoperability blog . The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure...

This entry has been re-posted from Brian Swan's blog . This is a short post to shareexciting news: Jooma! 2.5, which shipped earlier this week, now has support for SQL Server! Of course, this release contains lots more goodies, but the addition of...

This has been re-posted from the SQL Server Team Blog . In our continued commitment to interoperability, we are very excited to announce the availability of a preview release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux! This release will allow native developers...

This entry is a re-post of Brian Swan 's entry on The Silver Lining blog. In my last post , I looked at the session handling functionality that is built into the Windows Azure SDK for PHP , which uses Azure Tables or Azure Blobs for storing session...

Greetings Developer community: We heard yesterday and today at the PASS conference about the exciting new areas that we are investing in bringing the power of SQL Server to our customers. Many of our developers who rely on native connectivity to SQL...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, thank you very much for your feedback in driving our roadmap. Adding another milestone, the PHP Driver team is very excited to announce the availability of the Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for PHP for SQL Server Community...

Greetings to the Developer community: Thank you very much for an overwhelming response on our survey. Feedback is continuing to pour in. We are extending the deadline to complete the survey to September 16 th , 2011 to allow everyone to provide input...

This entry has been cross-posted from the Windows Azure Team Blog . As the SQL Azure July 2011 Service Release is being rolled out, we want to advise you of an important consideration for your application logic. Some customers may be programmatically...

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 2 years, we completed surveys that focused on the broad SQL Connectivity components...

After the obvious interest at last month's JumpIn Camp with the XML features of SQL Server, Brian Swan has written a great post on consuming result sets as XML in PHP. Go check it out!

Following our recent inclusion to the PHP Extension Community Library , we are also excited to announce that we have also uploaded the corresponding documentation to the PHP Manual ! These are the missing pieces to our PECL extensions, and will provide...

We are currently hard at work on the development on our next version of the PHP Driver for SQL Server and would love to hear your thoughts on some features we are evaluating. To this end, how much impact do you find from the following features, and...

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog . On the heels of today’s announcement at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference of the availability of SQL Server code name “Denali” CTP3 , the SQL Server Migration...

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog . As I arrived yesterday for day 4 (the last day) of the SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , one participant said to me,“I’m starting to feel worn down.” I think that was the general sentiment...

This entry has been cross-posted from Brian Swan's blog . Next week, Microsoft will host its second SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , and I’m very excited to be a participant (take a look at the list (below) of PHP applications and frameworks that will...

On behalf of the Microsoft PHP Driver for SQL Server team, it is my great pleasure to announce that we have published both SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV to the PHP Extension Community Library ! You can find our packages at: http://pecl.php.net/package/sqlsrv...

I should precede the following post with an introduction. I recently started at Microsoft as the Program Manager for the PHP Driver for SQL Server . Since then, I’ve been ramping up on the many aspects of the job, not the least of which is learning...

Drupal 7 completed a 3-year journey earlier this year by exiting beta stages and declaring itself ready for prime time . Our team (the SQL Server Drivers for PHP team) was fortunate to be part of that journey by working closely with the Drupal community...

The recent version 2.0 of the driver has been very well received, with a fair amount of activity on our forum. Our team has been actively engaged with providing support to our developer community to adopt this version – especially the PDO driver. Based...