Thanks for posting. No failed logins were recorded in the event viewer
after I got this error. I was able to see failed logins previously in the
event viewer but they were unrelated to the SQL Server Connection attempt.
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:45:11 AM UTC-5, Willoughby wrote:
>
> Login errors can be seen in the event viewer too IIRC, you might check
> there for clues.
>
> On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:50:17 PM UTC-4, Ryan Hood wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the advice and for sharing your experiences. Also appreciate
>> the mmsql4 tip. So this will probably surprise you, but I still get the
>> same SSL error when I switch to this connection string: mssql://DRIVER={SQL
>> Server};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=testDB;UID=testUser;PWD=password.
>>
>> I again tested the code above with pure pyodbc and that still works fine.
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 3:10:52 PM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote:
>>>
>>> uhm. connecting to "localhost" and from outside can require very
>>> different handshakes. For what is worth, I work daily with 2014 and I can
>>> connect fine (as long as the odbc driver is there). Your error seems to
>>> pinpoint to SSL security needed to connect to that host.
>>>
>>> Before jumping in that ship, however, there's a thing you can try:
>>>
>>> mssql://DRIVER={SQL
>>> Server};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=testDB;UID=testUser;PWD=password
>>>
>>> if you can connect from "pure" pyodbc, than this will use EXACTLY the
>>> same method to connect with the DAL.
>>>
>>>
>>> PS: if you're using 2014, you can benefit from the mssql4:// that
>>> improves performances with pagination.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:56:52 AM UTC+2, Ryan Hood wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am having trouble connecting to a SQL Server Instance via web2py. I
>>>> tried connecting to three different SQL Server instances (all 2014) on
>>>> three different servers on three different instances of web2py.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the full traceback:
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line
>>>>> 220, in restricted
>>>>> File
>>>>> "C:/Users/Administrator/Downloads/web2py_win/web2py/applications/stoptaneous/models/db.py"
>>>>> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/stoptaneous/models/db.py>,
>>>>> line 21, in <module>
>>>>> db = DAL('mssql://api:hotshot22@WIN-K5BSFDVN3KM/GTFSChicago')
>>>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/dal.py", line 7867, in
>>>>> __init__
>>>>> RuntimeError: Failure to connect, tried 5 times:
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/dal.py", line 7845, in
>>>>> __init__
>>>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/dal.py", line 688, in
>>>>> __call__
>>>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/dal.py", line 3454, in
>>>>> __init__
>>>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/dal.py", line 648, in
>>>>> reconnect
>>>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/dal.py", line 3452, in
>>>>> connector
>>>>> Error: ('08001', '[08001] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared
>>>>> Memory]SSL Security error (18) (SQLDriverConnect); [01000]
>>>>> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]ConnectionOpen
>>>>> (SECCreateCredentials()). (0); [01S00] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server
>>>>> Driver]Invalid connection string attribute (0)')
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> For what it is worth, I can connect via pyodbc and the following code
>>>> runs just fine for me (aliased to protect the innocent) and displays the
>>>> expected results.
>>>>
>>>> import pyodbc
>>>> cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL
>>>> Server};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=testDB;UID=testUser;PWD=password')
>>>> cursor = cnxn.cursor()
>>>> cursor.execute("select * from sample_table")
>>>> rows = cursor.fetchall()
>>>> for row in rows:
>>>> print row
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is my connection string in web2py:
>>>> db = DAL('mssql://testUser:password@localhost/testDB')
>>>>
>>>> In addition, I worked on a project roughly a year ago and a colleague
>>>> was able to connect to our SQL Server instance just fine (2008 r2
>>>> instance)
>>>> using web2py. Examined his code and it looks identical to this with the
>>>> references changed. Perplexed at this point. Any advice is greatly
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Ryan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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