Swan noted that all queries won't translate successfully (if they contain functions specific to MySQL, for example), but even if it doesn't work, it can provide clues to help write the translated ...

Using WebMatrix with PHP, OData, SQL Azure, Entity Framework and More I've written before about Microsoft's overtures to the PHP community, with the August release of PHP Drivers for SQL Server being ...

Should a SQL statement contain an error, PHP will return a cryptic, incomprehensible warning message via the driver. In debugging, it has been helpful to echo out the offending queries.

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

The transactions needed to store information in the database require Structured Query Language (SQL) commands placed inside a PHP script.