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Old 05-04-2009
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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mssql_close

MSSQL_CLOSE(3)															    MSSQL_CLOSE(3)

mssql_close - Close MS SQL Server connection

SYNOPSIS

       bool mssql_close ([resource  $link_identifier])

DESCRIPTION

	Closes	the link to a MS SQL Server database that's associated with the specified link identifier. If the link identifier isn't specified,
       the last opened link is assumed.

	Note that this isn't usually necessary, as non-persistent open links are automatically closed at the end of the script's execution.

PARAMETERS

	      o $link_identifier
		- A MS SQL link identifier, returned by mssql_connect(3).  This function will not close persistent links generated by  mssql_pcon-
		nect(3).

RETURN VALUES

	Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      mssql_close(3) example

	      <?php
	      // Connect to MSSQL
	      $link = mssql_connect('KALLESPCSQLEXPRESS', 'sa', 'phpfi');

	      // Do any related operations here

	      // Close the link to MSSQL
	      mssql_close($link);
	      ?>

SEE ALSO

       mssql_connect(3), mssql_pconnect(3).

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