note 89271 modified in function.mssql-connect by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:40:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 89271 modified in function.mssql-connect by danbrown | ||
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After a great deal of testing various things I finally found a solution for connecting to a named
instance of MS SQL Express. I first had to download version 200.80.194.0 of ntwdblib.dll and
overwrite the existing version in c:\PHP. I then tried an instance name that was posted by
"chop_01 at yahoo dot com" in this thread. The instance name is ".\SQLEXPRESS".
For example:
<?php
$dbconnect = mssql_connect(".\SQLEXPRESS", $dbUser, $dbPass);
?>
--was--
After a great deal of testing various things I finally found a solution for connecting to a named
instance of MS SQL Express. I first had to download version 200.80.194.0 of ntwdblib.dll and
overwrite the existing version in c:\PHP. I then tried an instance name that was posted by
"chop_01 at yahoo dot com" in this thread. The instance name is ".\SQLEXPRESS".
For example:
$dbconnect = mssql_connect(".\SQLEXPRESS", $dbUser, $dbPass);
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mssql-connect.php