That's great, any patches would be greatly appreciated.  If you ever
have any questions about how the driver works, feel free to ping me
offline and I'll answer you as quickly as I can.

On Apr 17, 8:53 am, Joshua Benner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> nate wrote:
> >> Nate: I can post a detailed bug if you'd like. It works, just has
> >> unexpected behavior for last page. Despite it being a limitation with
> >> mssql, there might be some php-side stuff that can be done to overcome
> >> it. In addition, SQL 2005 allegedly has a function that may allow more
> >> expected behavior (perhaps separate drivers?). Let me know if this is
> >> something I should report as a bug.
>
> > Hi Josh, I actually just finished a major rewrite of a significant
> > part of Cake's data abstraction layer, half the point of which was to
> > compensate for the fact that SQL Server doesn't support the use of
> > OFFSETs.  Previous to that, I implemented an entire field mapper in
> > the SQL Server driver to compensate for the fact that PHP's MSSQL
> > interface does not support returning field names longer than 30
> > characters.
>
> > At this point, I'm done.  I'm done taking responsibility for
> > Microsoft's broken database server, and for PHP's broken interface to
> > it.  Other than critical flaws, and keeping (relative) consistency
> > with other driver APIs, the MSSQL driver will not be maintained by the
> > core team going forward.  If one or two developers are willing to
> > further develop and maintain this driver, they can contact me
> > directly.
>
> nate,
>
> I totally understand. As I had said before -- the issues I've
> encountered are not major. It's looking likely that my organization will
> be making use of CakePHP, and we're stuck using MSSQL as our back end
> for now -- that being said, if I make any fixes/changes to the mssql
> driver, I'll submit them as patches.
>
> Thanks for your help!


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