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The MSSQL Chapter: Fiber Customer Data from PHP

Laravel Musaned PHP

17 Jul

The MSSQL Chapter: Fiber Customer Data from PHP

Part 5 of the Musaned series: fiber customer information lived in Microsoft SQL Server, and getting PHP to talk to it reliably was its own dependency saga — with different traps than Oracle.

The Oracle Chapter: Instant Client, oci8, and SQL*Plus at Scale

Musaned Oracle PHP

17 Jul

The Oracle Chapter: Instant Client, oci8, and SQL*Plus at Scale

Part 4 of the Musaned series: voucher data lived in Oracle, PHP needed oci8, oci8 needed Instant Client, and processing 2M+ records fast eventually meant going straight to SQL*Plus.