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Note Submitter: wolff@21st.de ---- Please note that although it´s stated everywhere that you can use --whith-sybase to make the mssql_* functions available on *nix platforms, this doesn´t mean that all functions of the MSSQL-Extension are really available. In fact, only those functions that are provided by the Sybase extension are mapped to the corresponding mssql_* function names, but no more. Therefore, a large part of the API is unavailable on Unix/Linux. Functions that do not exist are for example mssql_fetch_assoc(), mssql_field_name(), mssql_field_length() and mssql_field_type(). As a result of this, if you use PEAR::DB´s MSSQL driver class, you can´t use the tableInfo() method. Automated insert/update query generation using autoExecute() won´t work as well. There´s a new version of the MSSQL extension in CVS now that will also compile under Unix, making the full API available - but it´s not likely that it will make it into the 4.3.0 release.