The SQL Server driver for PHP is a great way of connecting to SQL Server databases from PHP. Written by Microsoft themselves, this offers much better performance and stability than stock or 3rd ...

In the test environment (2 IIS web servers, 1 SQL server, 1 IIS Utility server) none of our DB-driven apps are working. We cannot figure out the issue, but we think that MDAC is hosed.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

My boss, having created a sophisticated MySQL and PHP-driven black diamond web site in PHP was enthused about the prospects of further web development with PHP. He suggested trying to get PHP on a ...