Error 28000: Login failed for user DOMAIN\\user with pyodbc

Question

I am trying to use Python to connect to a SQL database by using Window authentication. I looked at some of the posts here (e.g., here), but the suggested methods didn\'t see

Answer 1

The first option works if your credentials have been stored using the command prompt. The other option is giving the credentials (UId, Psw) in the connection.

The following worked for me:

conn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=yourServer;DATABASE=yourDatabase;UID=yourUsername;PWD=yourPassword')