pymssql - DB-API interface to Microsoft SQL Server
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A simple database interface for Python
_ that builds on top of FreeTDS
_ to
provide a Python DB-API (PEP-249
) interface to Microsoft SQL Server
.
.. _Microsoft SQL Server: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _PEP-249: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
.. _FreeTDS: http://www.freetds.org/
Detailed information on pymssql is available on the website:
pymssql.readthedocs.io <https://pymssql.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>
_
New development is happening on GitHub at:
github.com/pymssql/pymssql <https://github.com/pymssql/pymssql>
_
There is a Google Group for discussion at:
groups.google.com <https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pymssql>
_
Getting started
pymssql wheels are available from PyPi. To install it run:
.. code-block:: bash
pip install -U pip
pip install pymssql
Most of the times this should be all what's needed.
The official pymssql wheels bundle a static copy of FreeTDS
and have SSL support so they can be used to connect to Azure.
.. note::
On some Linux distributions pip
version is too old to support all
the flavors of manylinux wheels, so upgrading pip
is necessary.
An example of such distributions would be Ubuntu 18.04 or
Python3.6 module in RHEL8 and CentOS8.
Basic example
.. code-block:: python
conn = pymssql.connect(server, user, password, "tempdb")
cursor = conn.cursor(as_dict=True)
cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM persons WHERE salesrep=%s', 'John Doe')
for row in cursor:
print("ID=%d, Name=%s" % (row['id'], row['name']))
conn.close()
Recent Changes
Version 2.3.7 - 2025-07-10 - Mikhail Terekhov
General
- Allow to specify openssl dependency on macos, thanks to dwt (PR #934).
Version 2.3.6 - 2025-06-28 - Mikhail Terekhov
General
- Build manylinux wheels using manylinux2014 image.