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Asked: 2026-06-07T15:26:57+00:00

I am trying to use Doctrine 2 (for Symfony 2) to connect to MSSQLServer

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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 able to connect to the db server via tsql on the command line and from the php cli also. Thus I know this is working.

In my Symfony/app/config/parameters.ini file I had specified database_driver=”pdo_sqlsrv” as the database driver (as I read that this would be handled by db_lib) but when trying to run a create database command (using the command php app/console doctrine:database:create) I am getting the error:

Could not create database for connection named could not find driver

I then changed the driver to database_driver="pdo_dblib" and I am now getting the error:

[Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException]
The given ‘driver’ pdo_dblib is unknown, Doctrine currently supports
only the following drivers: pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, pdo_pgsql, pdo_oci,
oci8, ibm_db2, pdo_ibm, pdo_sqlsrv

So it seems that to connect to MSSQL my only option is pdo_sqlsrv, so I went to install this. However, I have just discovered here, that

The PDO_SQLSRV extension is only compatible with PHP running on Windows.

Thus the driver supported by doctrine and those available to use on linux seem to be mutually exlusive. From searching I haven’t found any instances of this issue being solved thus far (One guy marked the issue as solved, but when I read the thread he had simply moved his dev env to a windows box… not exactly what I had in mind!).

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  1. Editorial Team

    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.

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