Good luck! If you get the chance, please post back with your findings, I'm sure other people would appreciate any further information.

Since writing this article I've pretty much given up on ODBC and switched to dblib instead, or sqlsrv when running PHP on Windows. While it's a bit worrying that dblib is officially marked experimental, so far I haven't run into any problems with it. I guess whether or not you can live with the risk depends on how critical the site you're setting up is.

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