laravel/docs — pull request #136 by abigwonderful (2012-06-05 20:24:39+00:00)
Title: Develop

Connection to mssql from unix (mac) using dblib

In order to connect to an mssql server from a unix environment (ie
Mac!) using freeTDS, the sqlserver class checks for dsn_type set in
config/database.php :

'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
'dsn_type' => 'dblib'

If set, the slightly different dblib connection syntax will be used to
establish the PDO connection

see here (code pull request): https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/770