How to install PYODBC in Databricks

Question

I have to install pyodbc module in Databricks. I have tried using this command (pip install pyodbc) but it is failed due to below error.

Error message

Answer 1

I was having the same issue for installation. This is what I tried and it worked.

• Databricks does not have default ODBC Driver. Run following commands in a single cell to install MS SQL ODBC driver

%sh
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get -q -y install msodbcsql17

• Run this in notebook

dbutils.fs.put("/databricks/init//pyodbc-install.sh","""
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -q -y install unixodbc unixodbc-dev
sudo apt-get -q -y install python3-dev
/databricks/python/bin/pip install pyodbc
""", True)

• Restart the cluster

• Import pyodbc in Code