How do I connect to SQL Server via sqlalchemy using Windows Authentication?

Question

sqlalchemy, a db connection module for Python, uses SQL Authentication (database-defined user accounts) by default. If you want to use your Windows (domain or local) credent

Answer 1

If you're using a trusted connection/AD and not using username/password, or otherwise see the following:

SAWarning: No driver name specified; this is expected by PyODBC when using >DSN-less connections "No driver name specified; "

Then this method should work:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

server = <your_server_name>

database = <your_database_name>

engine = create_engine('mssql+pyodbc://' + server + '/' + database + '?trusted_connection=yes&driver=ODBC+Driver+13+for+SQL+Server')

Answer 2

In order to use Windows Authentication with sqlalchemy and mssql, the following connection string is required:

ODBC Driver:

engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mssql://*server_name*/*database_name*?trusted_connection=yes')

SQL Express Instance:

engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mssql://*server_name*\\SQLEXPRESS/*database_name*?trusted_connection=yes') 

Answer 3

pyodbc

I think that you need to put:

"+pyodbc" after mssql

try this:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

engine = create_engine("mssql+pyodbc://user:password@host:port/databasename?driver=ODBC+Driver+17+for+SQL+Server")

cnxn = engine.connect()

It works for me

Luck!

Answer 4

A more recent response if you want to connect to the MSSQL DB from a different user than the one you're logged with on Windows. It works as well if you are connecting from a Linux machine with FreeTDS installed.

The following worked for me from both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 using Python 3.6 & 3.7:

import getpass
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
password = getpass.getpass()
eng_str = fr'mssql+pymssql://{domain}\{username}:{password}@{hostip}/{db}'
engine = create_engine(eng_str)

What changed was to add the Windows domain before \username. You'll need to install the pymssql package.