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Running stored procedures on MSSQL via any language on Linux

frank — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:48:14 +0000

If you need to run store procedures on Microsoft SQL Server on perl, php, ruby, etc., you need to configure /etc/freetds/freetds.conf with the server connection information. Specifically, specify the tds version to be 8.0. Something like the following.

/etc/freetds/freetds.conf
[Server80] host = domain.com port = 1433 tds version = 8.0

Connection to the server via php would look like this.
$link = mssql_connect("Server80", "user", "pass");

Scaling down from MS to open source

frank — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:37:31 +0000

We just moved a service that was running on the Microsoft stack (Windows Server 2008, .NET, MSSql Server, IIS) to an open source stack (Ubuntu Server, php, Codeigniter framework, apache2, postgres).

We now run the service on a cloud server with dual cpu and 256MB ram (Yes, that's megabytes).

The old server ran on dual core with 2GB of ram.

How to do that Mysql thing in MSSql?

frank — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:15:49 +0000

Ever wonder how to translate something you normally do between Mysql and MSSql?
Here is a good list of parity between the two.

Also, one section left open by that article is date formatting. After reading that, you can see why it was left out. It is quite a topic on its own.
Date Formats in MSSql