mediamonks/mssql-bundle

Symfony Bundle for working with Microsoft SQL Server on *nix (dblib) and Windows (sqlsrv) with UTF-8 and transactions support

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MediaMonksMssqlBundle

This bundle provides a driver which makes Symfony and Doctrine (DBAL and ORM) support dblib driver on *nix systems while also being compatible with sqlsrv on Windows., _(*2)

• Uses pdo_sqlsrv on Windows and pdo_dblib on unix
• Supports UTF-8
• Supports transactions
• Supports Doctrine ORM
• Supports Sonata Admin
• Supports Symfony Sessions

There are a few bundles and packages out there which can handle dblib but unfortunately we could not make it work with UTF-8 so we spent a while on cracking this issue. Since others had already done a lot of work on this we felt we had to return the favour to the community and release this bundle., _(*3)

A Big Thanks

• Realestate.co.nz for their awesome MssqlBundle which was the base for this bundle
• Leaseweb for their PdoDblib package which was very useful too
• Michal for his hard work in the past on projects where dblib had to be used, your input for this bundle was very valuable
• Arjen for his dedicated work on the function that prepares the query for supporting UTF-8 ♥
• Tonny & Elmar from the .NET team for their help on working with Microsoft SQL Server

Notes

• Do not use pdo_dblib unless you have very good reasons, use a different driver if you get the chance
• You probably need to be change the FreeTDS conf, make sure you can
• Support for ORM requires modifications to some Doctrine files in the vendor folder, a script for Composer which does this automatically is provided in this bundle
• When doing manual queries you should always use executeQuery() and executeUpdate() on Doctrine DBAL
• Named parameters are not supported, UTF-8 characters will be saved as ?
• This bundle was only tested on SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 and nvarchar fields
• Joined inheritance mapping in ORM is not supported yet since we did not need it, this might be supported in the future
• Symfony session handler does not use locking now, this might be supported in the future
• There are no tests since original tests on Doctrine are also likely to fail, take this bundle as-is but please create a PR if you have found an issue and fixed it
• MediaMonks is not responsible for any data loss, use dblib and this driver at your own risk

Documentation

Please refer to the files in the /Resources/doc folder., _(*4)