MS SQL Database connection

[Hitesh]

Hi currently I am using DNS and ODBC to connect to MS SQL database.
Is there any other non-dns way to connect? If I want to run my script
from different server I first have to create the DNS in win2k3.

Thank you,
hj

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Hi currently I am using DNS and ODBC to connect to MS SQL database.
Is there any other non-dns way to connect? If I want to run my script
from different server I first have to create the DNS in win2k3.

I suspect you mean DSN (Data Source Name), not DNS (Domain Name
System)...

Study the options for M$ SQL Server -- it may be possible to specify
everything as a connection string to the ODBC connection module...
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[Tim Golden]

Hi currently I am using DNS and ODBC to connect to MS SQL database.
Is there any other non-dns way to connect? If I want to run my script
from different server I first have to create the DNS in win2k3.

Here are several ways to connect to an MSSQL database w/o
having to create "DNS" or anything else in win2k3

There are other ways (the slightly stale MSSQL module
from Object Craft, for example, which still works fine
for Python <= 2.3).

TJG

<code>
def adodbapi_connection (server, database, username, password):
#
# http://adodbapi.sf.net
#
import adodbapi
connectors = ["Provider=SQLOLEDB"]
connectors.append ("Data Source=%s" % server)
connectors.append ("Initial Catalog=%s" % database)
if username:
connectors.append ("User Id=%s" % username)
connectors.append ("Password=%s" % password)
else:
connectors.append("Integrated Security=SSPI")
return adodbapi.connect (";".join (connectors))

def pymssql_connection (server, database, username, password):
#
# http://pymssql.sf.net
#
import pymssql
if not username:
raise RuntimeError, "Unable to use NT authentication for pymssql"
return pymssql.connect (user=username, password=password,
host=server, database=database)

def pyodbc_connection (server, database, username, password):
#
# http://pyodbc.sf.net
#
import pyodbc
connectors = ["Driver={SQL Server}"]
connectors.append ("Server=%s" % server)
connectors.append ("Database=%s" % database)
if username:
connectors.append ("UID=%s" % username)
connectors.append ("PWD=%s" % password)
else:
connectors.append ("TrustedConnection=Yes")
return pyodbc.connect (";".join (connectors))

</code>

 

[Hitesh]

Hi currently I am using DNS and ODBC to connect to MS SQL database.
Is there any other non-dns way to connect? If I want to run my script
from different server I first have to create the DNS in win2k3.

Here are several ways to connect to an MSSQL database w/o
having to create "DNS" or anything else in win2k3

There are other ways (the slightly stale MSSQL module
from Object Craft, for example, which still works fine
for Python <= 2.3).

TJG

<code>
def adodbapi_connection (server, database, username, password):
#
#http://adodbapi.sf.net
#
import adodbapi
connectors = ["Provider=SQLOLEDB"]
connectors.append ("Data Source=%s" % server)
connectors.append ("Initial Catalog=%s" % database)
if username:
connectors.append ("User Id=%s" % username)
connectors.append ("Password=%s" % password)
else:
connectors.append("Integrated Security=SSPI")
return adodbapi.connect (";".join (connectors))

def pymssql_connection (server, database, username, password):
#
#http://pymssql.sf.net
#
import pymssql
if not username:
raise RuntimeError, "Unable to use NT authentication for pymssql"
return pymssql.connect (user=username, password=password,
host=server, database=database)

def pyodbc_connection (server, database, username, password):
#
#http://pyodbc.sf.net
#
import pyodbc
connectors = ["Driver={SQL Server}"]
connectors.append ("Server=%s" % server)
connectors.append ("Database=%s" % database)
if username:
connectors.append ("UID=%s" % username)
connectors.append ("PWD=%s" % password)
else:
connectors.append ("TrustedConnection=Yes")
return pyodbc.connect (";".join (connectors))

</code>

Thank you.
And I yes I meant DSN not DNS (my mistake, thank you for catching
it

hj