MSSQL guid to string

I'm using Laravel 5.1 on Ubuntu PHP5.6 and the GUID to string conversion is working just fine. However on my development environment in PHP 7 it's pritining out like how it used to when I had to use the old mssql driver that came with php.

So all my string comparisons are failing on 7 for GUID's saved in mysql.

My gut says that some PDO setting that's not being set correctly. The query in question is using the DB class to fetch data through a raw sql. I think Eloquent is rendering correctly, I've not seen this problem before and I've been using it throughout (this is an older code base before I leaned additional tricks I currently use to work with this database)

Any ideas where I can start looking.

via Chebli Mohamed