Chive as an alternative to phpMyAdmin

Most of the mysql-admins out there will know phpmyadmin as a very helpful and reliable database administration tool. It’s available in most linux distros, can easily be installed and is for sure a very nice tool. Today I stumbled upon an alternative mysql administration-tool driven by php called chive. From the project-website you can quickly [...]

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Connecting to MSSQL databases with PHP from Linux

I needed to get some data from existing MSSQL databases with PHP. Connecting to such servers is a bit more tricky than mysql, because the mssql extension from php needs also a correctly configured TDS installation. But we’re lucky, there is an opensource implementation of the tds protocoll called FreeTDS. If you don’t want to [...]

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