[DB-SIG] Accessing MSSQL from Python

Marcos Sánchez Provencio msanchez@grupoburke.com
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:41:47 +0200 (CEST)


Thank you very much, that would be perfect for me. So, all I need is:

freeTDS
Sybase module

Do i need any proprietary sw? What were the changes that you had to make?
Any gotchas?

TIA

> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Marcos Sánchez Provencio wrote:
>> Is there some portable way (I mean non-MS) to access MSSQL from
>> Python? FreeTDS has a Python page which is absolutely blank.
>
> I was able to compile David Cole's Sybase module (with very few
> changes) with FreeTDS using the TDS version 7 protocol.  I was then
> able to connect to a MSSQL 2000 server and run queries very reliably.
>
> -Kevin
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