SqlAlchemy equivalent of pyodbc connect string using FreeTDS

Question

The following works:

import pyodbc
pyodbc.connect(\'DRIVER={FreeTDS};Server=my.db.server;Database=mydb;UID=myuser;PWD=mypwd;TDS_Version=8.0;Port=1433;\')
         


        

Answer 1

I'm still interested in a way to do this in one line within the sqlalchemy create_engine statement, but I found the following workaround detailed here:

import pyodbc, sqlalchemy

def connect():
    pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={FreeTDS};Server=my.db.server;Database=mydb;UID=myuser;PWD=mypwd;TDS_Version=8.0;Port=1433;')

sqlalchemy.create_engine('mssql://', creator=connect)

UPDATE: Addresses a concern I raised in my own comment about not being able to pass arguments to the connect string. The following is a general solution if you need to dynamically connect to different databases at runtime. I only pass the database name as a parameter, but additional parameters could easily be used as needed:

import pyodbc
import os

class Creator:
    def __init__(self, db_name='MyDB'):
        """Initialization procedure to receive the database name"""
        self.db_name = db_name

    def __call__(self):
        """Defines a custom creator to be passed to sqlalchemy.create_engine
           http://stackoverflow.com/questions/111234/what-is-a-callable-in-python#111255"""
        if os.name == 'posix':
            return pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={FreeTDS};'
                                  'Server=my.db.server;'
                                  'Database=%s;'
                                  'UID=myuser;'
                                  'PWD=mypassword;'
                                  'TDS_Version=8.0;'
                                  'Port=1433;' % self.db_name)
        elif os.name == 'nt':
            # use development environment
            return pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL Server};'
                                  'Server=127.0.0.1;'
                                  'Database=%s_Dev;'
                                  'UID=user;'
                                  'PWD=;'
                                  'Trusted_Connection=Yes;'
                                  'Port=1433;' % self.db_name)

def en(db_name):
    """Returns a sql_alchemy engine"""
    return sqlalchemy.create_engine('mssql://', creator=Creator(db_name))