Connecting Doctrine 2 to MSSQL For SYMFONY 2 On Linux

Question

I am trying to use Doctrine 2 (for Symfony 2) to connect to MSSQLServer from a linux machine.

I have installed pdo_dblib (PDO Driver for FreeTDS/Sybase DB-lib) and am ab

Answer 1

Under linux (at least Debian based distros), php needs the package php5-sybase that brings support for Sybase and MSSql.

If you are using a debian based distribution you will want to do

$ sudo apt-get install php5-sybase
$ sudo service apache2 restart

And

php -r "phpinfo();" | grep "PDO drivers"

should give you

PDO drivers: dblib, mysql, sqlite, ...

dblib is actually the one we need

Now to be able to use this driver with Doctrine, this post: Doctrine 2 - How to add custom DBAL driver? helped me to find the answer.

The OP suggests to use this bundle on git that makes things work together.