minitds

MS SQLServer database driver

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minitds

Yet another and pure python MS SQLServer database driver.

Support platform

  • Python 3.8+

Support database

We are testing it on MS SQLServer 2022 on Ubuntu.
But we think it works on older versions.

Installation

::

$ pip install minitds

Example

Query::

import minitds
conn = minitds.connect(host=‘localhost’,
user=‘sa’,
password=‘secret’,
database=‘database_name’)
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute(‘select foo, bar from baz’)
for r in cur.fetchall():
print(r[0], r[1])
conn.close()

Execute Procedure::

import minitds
conn = minitds.connect(host=‘localhost’,
user=‘sa’,
password=‘secret’,
database=‘database_name’)
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.callproc(‘something_proc’, [123, ‘ABC’])
conn.close()

Restrictions

  • Support connecting through SQL Server Authentication only.

Protocol Specification

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-tds/b46a581a-39de-4745-b076-ec4dbb7d13ec