Title: [Plugin: WP Db Abstraction] Does this actually work?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Db Abstraction] Does this actually work?

 *  [sam.boychuk@booktrack.co](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboychukbooktrackco/)
 * (@samboychukbooktrackco)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-db-abstraction-does-this-actually-work/)
 * I am attempting to get this plugin to function with a WordPress site hosted on
   Azure.
 * The site is hosted on Azure using the PHP SDK and a Scaffolding tool. No matter
   what I do, I continually get the the “Error establishing a database connection”
   problem. I have also run the site locally and attempted to connect to the Azure
   SQL DB using the MS SQL Driver. Adding debugging lines I have determine that 
   the sqlsrv_connect(…) call does not return anything. The $error array is also
   empty. Really stumped. In short has anyone successfully used this plugin to launch
   a site on Azure?
 * And what is wrong with sqlsrv_connect(…) in sqlsrv.php?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-database-abstraction/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-database-abstraction/)

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 *  [GraceFr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gracefr/)
 * (@gracefr)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-db-abstraction-does-this-actually-work/#post-2483823)
 * Hi Sam
    Did you follow instructions here for deploying to Azure? (references 
   the db abstraction plugin) : [http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/articles/how-to-deploy-wordpress-using-the-windows-azure-sdk-for-php-wordpress-scaffold](http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/articles/how-to-deploy-wordpress-using-the-windows-azure-sdk-for-php-wordpress-scaffold)
 * Here’s a blogpost from someone who has deployed:
 * [http://wp.me/philC-om](http://wp.me/philC-om)
 * Hope that helps. If not send me a tweet [@gracefr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gracefr/).

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 * Last reply from: [GraceFr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gracefr/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-db-abstraction-does-this-actually-work/#post-2483823)
 * Status: not resolved