I upgraded to PHP v7.2 on my Debian Buster/Sid today. Not a problem until I realised I’d broken my Microsoft SQL Drivers.

The real reason for my update from v7.0 to v7.2 was down to a problem I suffered with some Laravel console commands I was working on. When I ran a CLI based command php artisan group:command, which is a command I’m writing that uses a model from an MSSQL server. It would come up with an error message:

In Connection.php line 664:
                                                                               
  could not find driver (SQL: select top 1 * from [vwContract] order by [Ref]  
   asc)                                                                        
                                                                               
In Connector.php line 67:
                         
  could not find driver

But when using the same model on a web page things worked just fine.

Having a look at the CLI the version of php I was running was 7.2, but the FPM (web version) was still 7.0. Somewhere along the way a new version of PHP CLI had been installed and no driver for the CLI environment existed.

To fix it I first needed to upgrade all of PHP v7.0 to v7.2 by removing and reinstalling it.

$ sudo apt-get remove php-common
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mbstring php-zip php-mysql php-sqlite3 php-dev php-pear

Now with PHP up to date I had to uninstall/reinstall the MSSQL drivers. Which recompiled them and puts them into /usr/lib/php/20170718.

$ sudo pecl uninstall sqlsrv
$ sudo pecl uninstall pdo_sqlsrv

$ sudo pecl install sqlsrv
$ sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv

Then create or update the sqlsrv.ini file in /etc/php/7.2/mods-available and link it in both /etc/php/7.2/cli and /etc/php/7.2/fpm

References

https://warlord0blog.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/php7-0-microsoft-sql-driver-debian-stretch/