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# PDO_DBLIB DSN

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PDO_DBLIB DSN -- Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases

## Description

The PDO_DBLIB Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements:

DSN prefix

  The DSN prefix is `sybase:` if PDO_DBLIB was linked against the FreeTDS libraries, `mssql:` if PDO_DBLIB was linked against the Microsoft SQL Server libraries, or `dblib:` if linked against any other variety of DB-lib.

`host`

  The hostname on which the database server resides.

`dbname`

  The name of the database.

## Examples

Example 1. PDO_DBLIB DSN examples The following examples show a PDO_DBLIB DSN for connecting to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases:
    mssql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb
    sybase:host=localhost;dbname=testdb
    dblib:host=localhost;dbname=testdb

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