A while back, our friends at Microsoft asked us to write a whitepaper on how to use Microsoft SQL Server from PHP through their brand-new SQL Server Driver 2.0, which you may have noticed tucked away in a corner of the download package for our September 2010 issue.

Now that we’ve had a chance to collect feedback and fix a few bugs here and there, we thought it’d be good to make it available to anyone—you can find it here in PDF format. Topics covered include:

• Installing SQL Server Driver 2.0
• Accessing SQL Server from PHP
• Using PDO
• Understanding joins
• SQL Azure
• Migrating from MySQL
• Troubleshooting
• …and a ton of other useful resources!