How do I connect to SQL Server via sqlalchemy using Windows Authentication?

Question

sqlalchemy, a db connection module for Python, uses SQL Authentication (database-defined user accounts) by default. If you want to use your Windows (domain or local) credent

Answer 1

If you're using a trusted connection/AD and not using username/password, or otherwise see the following:

SAWarning: No driver name specified; this is expected by PyODBC when using >DSN-less connections "No driver name specified; "

Then this method should work:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

server = 

database = 

engine = create_engine('mssql+pyodbc://' + server + '/' + database + '?trusted_connection=yes&driver=ODBC+Driver+13+for+SQL+Server')