title: Centos 8, PHP 7.2 and MS Sql Server
body: <p>I am planning moving on to the Centos 8 but it seems that I cannot get a working PDO connection with SQL server using just plain Centos 8 packages.</p>
  
  <p>I have installed the unixODBC packages and after that from PECL sqlsrv and sqlsrv_pdo but I can't figure out how to make the actual connection or odbc configuration. </p>
  
  <p>As most of my code to be transferred to the new environments is written using PDO, I wouldn't want to change it to sql server native.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any step-by-step instructions how to build PDO ODBC connection to sql server without using freetds, which isn't available through the centos repositories (or RHEL either).</p>