sql server support from linux

[vincent wehren]

Simon Wittber wrote:
> I am currently tasked with connecting Python CGI programs, under
> Apache2 / Linux, to SQL Server on Windows 2000.
> 
> The latest MSSQL module from
> http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/mssql/ (0.09) will not (for
> me, at least) compile on Debian.
> The next version of the module (0.08) will compile, but raises a
> MemoryException whenever I return varchar fields. Hopeless. It also
> segfaults (!) whenever I use datetime fields.
> 
> The sybase library (also from object-craft) appears to work, but
> raises an exception whenever an empty query result is returned. This
> is bizzare, and not DB-API 2.0 compiant.
> 
> Does anyone in this list ever connect to SQL Server from Linux, using
> Python? If so, what is your solution?

Using mx.ODBC?

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Vincent Wehren

> 
> I'm going nuts over here!
> 
> Sw.