[DB-SIG] Accessing MSSQL from Python

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:23:34 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Marcos S=E1nchez 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 connec=
t
to a MSSQL 2000 server and run queries very reliably.

-Kevin

--
Kevin Jacobs
The OPAL Group - Enterprise Systems Architect
Voice: (216) 986-0710 x 19         E-mail: jacobs@theopalgroup.com
Fax:   (216) 986-0714              WWW:    http://www.theopalgroup.com