FreeTDS Development Group

[Daniel Fazekas <fdsubs AT axelero.hu>]

On Dec 15, 2003, at 20:59, Chris Hettinger wrote:

> My environment:
> Apache / PHP on Mdk 9.1 Linux.
> PHP has been compilied with the db driver and TDS library
> Connecting to a MS SQL 7 db.

Give us some more version information. Apache, FreeTDS, PHP and what 
configure command you used to build PHP.
Using my little test script will give you some, but not all, of that 
information:
http://web.axelero.hu/fdsoft/temp/freetds_test.zip

> I have a script that initially does a insert into a table in the mssql 
> db,
> immediately after the insert I need to identify the ID that was 
> generated
> and used on that record so I query the same table where some of the 
> details
> match and grab the id... However the second sql execution fails.
> It returns no records.
> To test this I did another test where I do a insert and immediately 
> after
> that I do a select from a different table within a differnet database 
> all
> together, and it also fails, returning no records.

Your problem sounds a lot like what an ex-colleague of mine once 
experienced with long forgotten, ancient versions of PHP and FreeTDS. 
FreeTDS was 0.53 or earlier, PHP around the 4.1x line or so.

The workaround was to add a useless and trivial query in the middle, 
such as a simple "SELECT 1"

My suggestion is to upgrade to the latest final version of PHP (4.34) 
and either 0.61 of FreeTDS or even the daily snapshot as those tend to 
be even more stable than the old one.

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fds