What's causing 'unable to connect to data source' for pyodbc?

Question

I\'m trying to connect to an MSSQL database from python on Linux (SLES).

I have installed pyodbc and Free TDS. From the command line:

tsql -H server          


        

Answer 1

One setting is enoug, /etc/odbcinst.ini:

[FreeTDS]
Description = FreeTDS Driver to MsSQL
Driver = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsodbc.so
UsageCount = 1

And next:

connection = pyodbc.connect(
    'DRIVER=FreeTDS;'
    'SERVER=;'
    'PORT=1433;'
    'DATABASE=;'
    'UID=;'
    'PWD=;'
    'TDS_VERSION=8.0;'
)