Python and MS SQL (Microsoft SQL server)

Dave Cinege dcinege at psychosis.com
Wed Jan 19 10:58:04 EST 2000


"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> Dave Cinege wrote:
> >
> > "George Thom at s" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Dave,
> > > The odbc module that comes as part of the win32 extensions bundled with
> > > Python 1.5.2 for the various flavours (!) of Windows should do just fine.
> >
> > So you're saying python has to be runnign on NT for this to work?
> >
> > > Additional functionality (with some tweaking ... ymmv ;-) can be obtained
> > > with marc Lemburg's mxODBC module.
> >
> > What about this? we're looking to run on solaris or linux.
> 
> Then you should probably try out the Sybase interface together
> with the Sybase dev libs. 

So you're saying the sybase interface works with 

mxODBC will only connect you to
> local databases unless you let it talk to the DB through
> an ODBC-ODBC bridge.

That sounds like a better solution. Can I do that using the unix ODBC thing
that I've seen listing in the python modules page?




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