I am trying to connect to SQL Server 2000 from PHP
I bumped to following warning:
Warning: mssql_connect(): Unable to connect to server: SERVER\Portal
....... on line 5
on line 5 there is:
$db_connect = mssql_connect('SERVER\Portal', 'sa', 'my_passwd');
I did the following
1.enabled php_mssql.dll extension in PHP.ini
2.every dll is in proper place(System32 or PHP folder),including ntwdblib.dll
I search lots of profile throught web ,but no one give me proper answer to resolve it.
after a few hour ,I found the problem was caused by
ntwdblib.dll ,which version is 7.00.839 ,when I replaced old ntwdblib.dll with the new
ntwdblib.dll ,which version is 8.00.194 ,all problem are solved.
We had some, read A LOT, of problems with MSSQL under Windows 2003.
We had 2 the same windows, php, php-ini, everything machines but only one could connect.
Unable to connect was the error message.
Finnaly we checked the version of ntwdblib.dll and the one distributed with PHP was 7.00....
and the version of the one on the SQL Server install was 8.00.... so we copied this one in
the php and apache dir and it worked.
问题就这样被找到了，惹祸的是它 ntwdblib.dll
ntwdblib.dll的主要作用是提供sql server连接服务。
我用的php版本是4.3.9，在安装它的服器的 windows/system32/ 下我查到ntwdblib.dll文件的版本是2000.2.8.0 ，这个版本支持的是sql server 7.0， 因为安装PHP时会把dlls下面的所有文件覆盖到系统
目录下，所以当我用它去连接 sql server 2000 的时候当然会是无法连接了。
后来我在一台正常安装sql server 2000 的服务器上查到 ntwdblib.dll的版本是 2000.80.2039.0，我把这个文件拷过去，覆盖掉以前的版本，重启服务器后，一切正常。