What's the simplest way to access mssql with python or ironpython?

Question

I\'ve got mssql 2005 running on my personal computer with a database I\'d like to run some python scripts on. I\'m looking for a way to do some really simple access on the d

Answer 1

pyodbc comes with Activestate Python, which can be downloaded from here. A minimal odbc script to connect to a SQL Server 2005 database looks like this:

import odbc

CONNECTION_STRING="""
Driver={SQL Native Client};
Server=[Insert Server Name Here];
Database=[Insert DB Here];
Trusted_Connection=yes;
"""

db = odbc.odbc(CONNECTION_STRING)
c = db.cursor()
c.execute ('select foo from bar')
rs = c.fetchall()
for r in rs:
    print r[0]