Unable to send Unicode to SQL Server using pymssql

Question

I\'m having issues sending unicode to SQL Server via pymssql:

In [1]:     import pymssql
            conn = pymssql.connect(host=\'hostname\', user=\'me\', p         


        

Answer 1

Here is something which worked for me:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import pymssql
conn = pymssql.connect(host='hostname', user='me', password='password', database='db')
cursor = conn.cursor()

s = u'Monsieur le Curé of the «Notre-Dame-de-Grâce» neighborhood'

cursor.execute("INSERT INTO MyTable(col1) VALUES(%s)", s.encode('latin-1', "ignore"))
conn.commit()
cursor.close()
conn.close()

MyTable is of collation: Latin1_General_CI_AS and the column col1 in it is of type varchar(MAX)

My environment is: SQL Server 2008 & Python 2.7.10