On July 24, Microsoft released version 1.0 of their native SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61 … 597C21A2E2A&displaylang=en Some months back I downloaded a beta version of this after having problems working with international characters (UTF-8) with PDO and MSSQL and impressively the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP worked very well. Congratulations to [...]