Intro For the blog engine I’m writing for the WinPHP contest I needed a place to store data. Because windows specific features need to be used, Microsoft SQL Server is the logic choice. Getting data from the database isn’t as easy as making that choice. The extension that comes with PHP worked well with SQL Server 2005, but failed when running on a Windows Server 2008 machine with SQL Server 2008. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to get it to work on SQL Server 2008. Installation First, download...