Why Move to MySQL from Microsoft SQL Server?

 
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Why Move to MySQL from Microsoft SQL Server?

Before we get started, let me say that I always liked being a SQL Server DBA. My database experience started with DB2, then Teradata, followed by Oracle, and then SQL Server (and then a little bit of Sybase after that, followed by MySQL). Coming from the other databases, I found SQL Server the easiest and quickest to learn at the time, but of course, a lot of that had to do with the fact that Microsoft was really the only database vendor around then (I started with version 4.2 of SQL Server) that shipped any decent GUI management tools with their server. Take the tools away, and you basically had Sybase on Windows with the ISQL command line tool, which was not pretty by any means.

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PDO_SQLSRV-DSN(3)							 1							 PDO_SQLSRV-DSN(3)

PDO_SQLSRV DSN - Connecting to MS SQL Server and SQL Azure databases

	The PDO_SQLSRV Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements:

	      o DSN prefix
		- The DSN prefix is sqlsrv:.

	      o APP - The application name used in tracing.

	      o ConnectionPooling - Specifies whether the connection is assigned from a connection pool (1 or TRUE) or not (0 or FALSE).

	      o Database - The name of the database.

	      o Encrypt - Specifies whether the communication with SQL Server is encrypted (1 or TRUE) or unencrypted (0 or FALSE).

	      o Failover_Partner  - Specifies the server and instance of the database's mirror (if enabled and configured) to use when the primary
		server is unavailable.

	      o LoginTimeout - Specifies the number of seconds to wait before failing the connection attempt.

	      o MultipleActiveResultSets - Disables or explicitly enables support for multiple active Result sets (MARS).

	      o QuotedId - Specifies whether to use SQL-92 rules for quoted identifiers (1 or TRUE) or to use  legacy  Transact-SQL  rules  (0	or
		false).

	      o Server - The name of the database server.

	      o TraceFile - Specifies the path for the file used for trace data.

	      o TraceOn - Specifies whether ODBC tracing is enabled (1 or TRUE) or disabled (0 or FALSE) for the connection being established.

	      o TransactionIsolation   -  Specifies  the  transaction  isolation  level.  The  accepted  values  for  this  option  are  PDO::SQL-
		SRV_TXN_READ_UNCOMMITTED, PDO::SQLSRV_TXN_READ_COMMITTED, PDO::SQLSRV_TXN_REPEATABLE_READ, PDO::SQLSRV_TXN_SNAPSHOT, and PDO::SQL-
		SRV_TXN_SERIALIZABLE.

	      o TrustServerCertificate	-  Specifies  whether the client should trust (1 or TRUE) or reject (0 or FALSE) a self-signed server cer-
		tificate.

	      o WSID - Specifies the name of the computer for tracing.

       Example #1

	      PDO_SQLSRV DSN examples

	       The following example shows how to connecto to a specified MS SQL Server database:

	      $c = new PDO("sqlsrv:Server=localhost;Database=testdb", "UserName", "Password");

	       The following example shows how to connect to a MS SQL Server database on a specified port:

	      $c = new PDO("sqlsrv:Server=localhost,1521;Database=testdb", "UserName", "Password");

	       The following example shows how to connecto to a SQL Azure database with server ID 12345abcde. Note that when you  connect  to  SQL
	      Azure with PDO, your username will be UserName@12345abcde (UserName@ServerId).

	      $c = new PDO("sqlsrv:Server=12345abcde.database.windows.net;Database=testdb", "UserName@12345abcde", "Password");

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