PyODBC, cursor.execute() won't insert parameters into SQL String

Question

I am using pypyodbc to insert data into a database and when I use the cursor.execute() command I try to put the sql string and the parameters, but I get the following error:

Answer 1

Use datetime.strptime() to convert the attack_datetime value to a datetime object before passing the value to SQL Server.

For example, passing a datetime formatted string fails with the same error message you receive

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# assumes connection and cursor objects initialized
create_date_str = "2016-06-16T01:23:45.67890"
sql = "select name, create_date from sys.databases where create_date = ?"
rows = cursor.execute(sql, create_date_str).fetchall()

Raises

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in pyodbc.DataError: ('22007', '[22007] [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string. (241) (SQLExecDirectW)')

While converting the datetime string to a datetime object succeeds

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# convert datetime string to object, specifying input format
create_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(create_date_str, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f')
rows = cursor.execute(sql, create_date).fetchall()