[Tutor] database access to MSSQL

[Kent Johnson]

Ryan Davis wrote:
> Does anyone know of a decent way to access a SQL Server 2000 database?

I make heavy use of SQL Server from Jython using Microsoft's JDBC driver. This works great if it is 
an option for you.

Otherwise if your client is on Windows take a look at adodbapi. I have just played around with this 
enough to see that it will connect to SQL Server so I can't vouch for the quality but at least it 
claims to be ready for production use.
http://adodbapi.sourceforge.net/

eGenix sells an ODBC adapter:
http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxODBC.html

Kent

> 
> I've gotten some versions working using dbi,odbc and defining a DSN on the computer, but I'd like to be able to specify a server,
> user, pass, and database in code.  As far as I can tell, I'd have to define a DSN for every database I'd want to use.
> 
> I found this via google:
> http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/mssql/
> but that has a lot of strong language saying "this isn't ready for use".
> 
> Has anyone done this before and come up with a reasonable solution?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan 
> 
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