PyODBC : can't open the driver even if it exists

Question

I\'m new to the linux world and I want to query a Microsoft SQL Server from Python. I used it on Windows and it was perfectly fine but in Linux it\'s quite painful.

Answer 1

I had the same problem 'file not found (0) (SQLDriverConnect)' on MAC OS with the following code

cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server};SERVER=myServerIP,1433;DATABASE=myDBName;UID=sa;PWD=dbPassword')

after googling for two days, I cannot fix the issue even modify the freetds.conf, odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini

finally, I found the solution via replacing DRIVER value

cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={/usr/local/lib/libmsodbcsql.13.dylib};SERVER=myServerIP,1433;DATABASE=myDBName;UID=sa;PWD=dbPassword')

My dev environment

• MAC OS El Capitan
• python 3.6.1 in Anaconda