SQLServer Features

The SQL Server service type can connect to local or remote SQL Server, SQL Server Express, or Azure SQL Database.

Requirements

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On Windows OS...

• PHP extensions sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv are required to be installed or compiled in.

On Linux or Mac OS...

• PHP extensions sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv if Microsoft supports your OS. (see MS on Github) OR
• PHP extension pdo_dblib (and possibly mssql for PHP versions <7.0) are required to be installed or compiled in.

Configuration

• host - String. Required. The name of the database host, i.e. localhost, 192.168.1.1, etc.
• port - Integer. Optional. The number of the database host port, internally defaults to 1433.
• database - String. Required. The name of the database to connect to on the given server. This can be a lookup key.
• username - String. Optional. The name of the database user. This can be a lookup key.
• password - String. Optional. The password for the database user. This can be a lookup key.
• default_schema_only - Boolean. Defaults to false. Do not include other schemas/databases on this server regardless of permissions given to the supplied credentials.
• readonly - Boolean. Defaults to false. Defines ApplicationIntent as ReadOnly.
• pooling - Boolean. Defaults to false. Specifies whether the connection is assigned from a connection pool.
• appname - String. Optional. The application name used in tracing.
• options - Object. Optional. A name-value array of driver-specific connection options.
• attributes - Object. Optional. A key-value array of attributes to be set after connection. For further information, see http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.setattribute.php.
• statements - Array of Strings. Optional. An array of additional SQL statements to run during connection initialization.