Goal: Connect to MSSQL using FreeTDS / ODBC in Python.
Host: Linux Mint 15 x86_64
Install:
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip freetds-dev freetds-bin unixodbc-dev tdsodbc
pip install pyodbc
In /etc/odbcinst.ini:
[FreeTDS]
Description=FreeTDS Driver
Driver=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsodbc.so
In /etc/odbc.ini:
[FreeTDS]
Description = "test"
Driver = FreeTDS
Server = my-server
Port = 1433
In /etc/freetds/freetds.conf:
# $Id: freetds.conf,v 1.12 2007/12/25 06:02:36 jklowden Exp $
#
# This file is installed by FreeTDS if no file by the same
# name is found in the installation directory.
#
# For information about the layout of this file and its settings,
# see the freetds.conf manpage "man freetds.conf".
# Global settings are overridden by those in a database
# server specific section
[global]
# TDS protocol version
; tds version = 4.2
# Whether to write a TDSDUMP file for diagnostic purposes
# (setting this to /tmp is insecure on a multi-user system)
; dump file = /tmp/freetds.log
; debug flags = 0xffff
# Command and connection timeouts
; timeout = 10
; connect timeout = 10
# If you get out-of-memory errors, it may mean that your client
# is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.
# Try setting 'text size' to a more reasonable limit
text size = 64512
[FreeTDS]
host = my-server
port = 1433
tds version = 8.0