What's causing 'unable to connect to data source' for pyodbc?

Question

I\'m trying to connect to an MSSQL database from python on Linux (SLES).

I have installed pyodbc and Free TDS. From the command line:

tsql -H server          


        

Answer 1

Just for an extra datapoint, odbc.ini is empty on my host, and odbcinst.ini has the following lines:

# Driver from FreeTDS
#
[FreeTDS]
Driver = /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0

last, the freetds.conf file has these lines:

[global]
    host= 
    port= 
    tds version = 8.0

While one can certainly specify option settings in odbc.ini, doing it this way allows the configuration options to all be managed where you'd expect them -- the freetds.conf file.