title: PHP MS SQL ID format problem
body: <p>I'm drawing records into PHP from a legacy MSSQL database built for/by an ASP.net application.</p>
  
  <p>The id's in ASP appear as long strings of numbers but when retrieved by PHP are in a form like so:</p>
  
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