Can't open lib 'ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server'? Sym linking issue?

Question

When I try to connect to a sql server database with pyodbc (on mac):

import pyodbc

server = \'####\'
database = \'####\'
username = \'####@####\'
password =         


        

Answer 1

In my case, I had to change the pyodbc database driver string to
driver='{ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server}'

actually, in my python code pyodbc was expecting ODBC Driver 13 but, as the ODBC Driver version was updated (because of ubuntu update) to current version ODBC Driver 17, the problem had occurred.