As far as I know, and I might be wrong, ASP.NET uses a managed runtime .NET interface which does not use COM (It's the actual TDS protocol implemented in managed code). COM is viewed as poor way to run such interfaces both for performance reasons and resource reference counting resources.
Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Wenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:24 AM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DEV] RE: CVS Account Request: cleong > > Hi Andi, > > ASP.NET is using OLEDB, as well, and in my experiences this > does not add to much penalty to communicating with MSSQL > (however obviously more exhaustive performance tests are > required). However I am wondering whether the OLEDB way would > still work on non-Windows PHP versions? If > not: Having two compatible, but internally completely > different MSSQL extensions for win32 and non-win32 sounds > dangerous to me. > > --Christian > > > Hi Chung, > > > > Any idea on the performance of OLEDB? My understanding was > that due to > > it going through the COM layer, performance will be relatively poor. > > > > Any idea? > > > > Andi > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chung Leong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:37 PM > > > To: internals@lists.php.net > > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request: cleong > > > > > > I would like to submit a replacement for the Win32 mssql > extension > > > that I have recently completed. The extension provides > the same set > > > of functions as mssql, but uses OLEDB to talk to > SQLServer instead > > > of DBLIB. It allows users to retrieve varchar column > wider than 255 > > > and also Unicode columns as UTF-8. > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
