I\'ve decided to use FreeTDS driver and unixODBC to manage the PDO connection between my LAMP-based app with a remote MsSQL database. unfortunately it appears that the drive
I experienced this exact same problem, but my config was already correctly set up. The problem was that the TDS versions that freetds.conf recognizes has changed in newer versions, but apparently the old versions still work in the TDSVER environment variable. Once I set the version in the config files to 7.1 rather than 8.0 everything started working.