Cannot establish connection to sql-server using pyodbc on Windows 7

Question

I'm using ActivePython 2.7.2.5 on Windows 7.

While trying to connect to a sql-server database with the pyodbc module using the below code, I receive the subsequent Traceback. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

CODE:

import pyodbc
driver = 'SQL Server'
server = '**server-name**'
db1 = 'CorpApps'
tcon = 'yes'
uname = 'jnichol3'
pword = '**my-password**'

cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=server;DATABASE=db1;UID=uname;PWD=pword;Trusted_Connection=yes')
cursor = cnxn.cursor()
cursor.execute("select * from appaudit_q32013")
rows = cursor.fetchall()
for row in rows:
    print row

TRACEBACK:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pyodbc_test.py", line 9, in <module>
    cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=server;DATABASE=db1;UID=uname;PWD=pword;Trusted_Connection=yes')
pyodbc.Error: ('08001', '[08001] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. (17) (SQLDriverConnect); [01000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (Connect()). (53)')

Answer 1

You're using a connection string of 'DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=server;DATABASE=db1;UID=uname;PWD=pword;Trusted_Connection=yes', you're trying to connect to a server called server, a database called db1, etc. It doesn't use the variables you set before, they're not used.

It's possible to pass the connection string parameters as keyword arguments to the connect function, so you could use:

cnxn = pyodbc.connect(driver='{SQL Server}', host=server, database=db1,
                      trusted_connection=tcon, user=uname, password=pword)