Better way to access MS SQL Server from PHP

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Currently using ODBC to connect to MS SQL server 2005.  Profiling shows that 
to fetch many rows requires a cursor based fetch of each record - a round 
trip to SQL server for each. I would like to use some driver/interface from 
PHP to SQL server that would get all rows in one round trip, or at least a 
smaller number of round trips. The native SQL driver for PHP has a problem 
with a limit on the number of characters in a string, so can't use that.

Is there anything better to use?
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