Janos, I tried the ODBC way and it worked! I was about to give up and do it in C# or some other language but I love Python so much I wanted it to work.
Thank you SO MUCH! And thanks to all of you who helped as well! You folks are the best.
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:07:35 +0200 From: J?nos Juh?sz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Tutor] MSSQL Connection To: tutor@python.org Message-ID: < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hi Leon, > > Hi John, > > > > Here's the code (I do have permissions to truncate, works manually under > > the same user. > > > > > > import pymssql > > > > con = pymssql.connect > > (host='server',user='user',password='pwd',database='DB_QA') > > cur = con.cursor() > > > > > > query="truncate TABLE bbConsolidatedMessageAcks" > > cur.execute(query) > > print "Deleted Records: %d" % cur.rowcount > > I use two alternatives to connect to mssql server. ADODB connection via win32com.client ------------------ import win32com.client cn =win32com.client.Dispatch('ADODB.connection') cn.Provider='sqloledb' cn.Open('Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial Catalog=production;Data Source=036fefersqls001') # The argument of cn.Open(), the connection string can be created very easy on windows. # Create a conn.udl on your desktop # Open it with double click, and build a new connection string, test it, save it # Copy and paste from your .udl stockcode = '100701-06' sql = "select * from stocks where stock = '%s'" % stockcode print sql rs = win32com.client.Dispatch('ADODB.recordset') rs.Open(sql, cn) print rs.Fields[0].Value rs.Close() cn.Close() ----------------- But I usually use ODBC with this kind of class. import dbi, odbc class myDB: def __init__(self): """Open a new connection.""" self.cn = odbc.odbc('DSN=myDB;UID=query;PWD=query;DATABASE=myDB') def closeDB(self): """Close the connection.""" self.cn.close() def Execute(self, sql): cr = self.cn.cursor() cr.execute(sql) cr.close() def Query(self, sql): try: cr = self.cn.cursor() cr.execute(sql) self.colnames = [field_prop[0] for field_prop in cr.description] self.result = cr.fetchall() self.rownum = len(self.result) return self.result except: self.colnames = [None] self.result = [[None]] self.rownum = 0 return [[None]] test = myDB() print(test.Query('Select * from testtable') ) Best regards, Janos ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor End of Tutor Digest, Vol 39, Issue 60 *************************************
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