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 have a Mac OS and the following commands fixed the problem:

brew tap microsoft/mssql-release https://github.com/Microsoft/homebrew-mssql-release
brew update
brew install msodbcsql mssql-tools

Note 1: It might be necessary that you need to install unixodbc in advance to msodbcsql and mssql-tools as the following:

brew install unixodbc

Note 2: If you dont have already brew, the Missing Package Manager for macOS, then you can install it from here: https://brew.sh/

Note 3: You can verifiy your installation as @emehex already mentioned above with the following commands:

odbcinst -j

sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/odbcinst.ini /etc/odbcinst.ini
sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini /etc/odbc.ini