Tom Fenton shows you two ways to overcome the gotchas when setting up an ODBC connection to a remote database. This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express ...

I need to connect to a remote SQL Server 2000 database from PHP (on a unix server). I know that I need to figure out how to use ODBC somehow, but all of the tutorials i've been able to find seem dated ...

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...