We are excited to announce the technical preview for SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers support Debian Jessie as well. Both drivers have been built and tested on Debian 8.7. In addition, starting with this release, we support sql_variant type with limitations.

Notable items about 4.2.0-preview release,

Added

• Added support for sql_variant data type with limitation (issue #51 and issue #127)
• Support drivers on Debian Jessie (tested on Debian 8.7)

Fixed

• Increased Test Coverage to 75%
• Bug fixes after running static analysis

Limitation

• No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type

Known Issues

• User defined data types
• When pooling is enabled in Linux or MAC
  • unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and MAC) might not return proper diagnostics 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 Mac run the commands below: sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.2.0preview sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-4.2.0preview
• On Windows, download the DLLs from SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV PECL repository.