I am looking to establish a connection to MS SQL through a DSN using pyodbc. what I am seeing is that I cannot connect to database unless I specify the username (PID) and password (PWD) in the connection string like this:
conn_str = 'DSN=MYMSSQL;UID=sa;PWD=password'
so if I use PID and PWD it works but if I put the PID and PWD in my DSN configuration (MYMSSQL) and remove these two attributes from conn_str then it doesn't work, below is the DSN configuration:
[MYMSSQL]
Description = Test to SQLServer
Driver = FreeTDS
Servername = MYMSSQL
UID = sa
PWD = password
Database = tempdb
Observation from the pyodbc API docs, apprently no way to do it without UID and PWD
def connect(p_str, autocommit=False, ansi=False, timeout=0, **kwargs): # real signature unknown; restored from __doc__
"""
connect(str, autocommit=False, ansi=False, timeout=0, **kwargs) --> Connection
Accepts an ODBC connection string and returns a new Connection object.
**The connection string will be passed to SQLDriverConnect, so a DSN connection
can be created using:**
**cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DSN=DataSourceName;UID=user;PWD=password')**
To connect without requiring a DSN, specify the driver and connection
information:
DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=testdb;UID=user;PWD=password
Note the use of braces when a value contains spaces. Refer to SQLDriverConnect
documentation or the documentation of your ODBC driver for details.
The connection string can be passed as the string `str`, as a list of keywords,
or a combination of the two. Any keywords except autocommit, ansi, and timeout
(see below) are simply added to the connection string.
connect('server=localhost;user=me')
connect(server='localhost', user='me')
connect('server=localhost', user='me')
The DB API recommends the keywords 'user', 'password', and 'host', but these
are not valid ODBC keywords, so these will be converted to 'uid', 'pwd', and
'server'.
pass