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PHP Driver for SQL Server - Watch out LAMP

Posted by Jason on Monday, July 28, 2008 to SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008, Offtopic
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The PHP Driver for SQL Server 2005 RTM'ed today. A few months ago, I posted about the WIMP(Windows 2008, IIS7, MSSQL, PHP) stack that Microsoft was working on to take on the LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack. Supposedly, Microsoft has made some tremendous strides in PHP performance with IIS7. I was like "meh" until today when they released the PHP driver for SQL Server 2005.

Test drive time?

Hmm, maybe it is time to setup a wordpress mirror. While looking looking for some IIS\PHP benchmark, I found this post that details the setup. I am pretty sure I could hack the MySQL code to work on MSSQL. *Looks at plate. Reconsiders.*

 

This post is useless without numbers

What does concerns me a little is the lack of benchmarks. It seems like it would be really easy to take the same open source php apps and the same hardware then run some linux vs. windows 2008 performance tests. I just did some quick searches so they may exists. The windows performance team did release their php tuning guidelines. Come on with the numbers Microsoft!

Time to over deliver

Really, it has to be better than LAMP or the community will chew it up and spit it out. I hope WIMP is actually hefty, hefty, hefty. I think MSSQL(and Oracle\DB2) have had slower growth due to open source RDMS bleed. A stout windows PHP platform, this driver and SQL Server 2008 Web Edition will better position MS in that segment.

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Sorry, I really don't get Microsoft's track on this one. I'm a MS fanboy, but to me, the very worst thing about the LAMP stack is PHP, compared to ASP.Net. I guess it's still good to have the option, but I'd rather see them convert PHP developers to ASP.Net developers, rather than converting them from MySQL to SQL Server.

Just my two cents.

posted @ Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:04 AM by Stephen


I think they are really going after linux more than anything. The driver does fix the fact that most of the open source PHP apps currently do not support MSSQL. Maybe that will change.

posted @ Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:29 AM by JasonMassie


Huh? What's the point of running PHP on top of IIS? Developers I know who use PHP like it because it's free and runs on free operating systems. Running it on IIS totally defeats the purpose...

posted @ Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:50 PM by Adam Machanic


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