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
The initial TDSVER=7.0 issue was resolved by adding the following at the end of my odbc.ini file:
TDSVER=7.0
odbc.ini
[Default] Driver=/usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so