A Django MS SQL Server external DB backend that uses ODBC by employing the pyodbc library. It supports SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
- Supports Django 1.4 or newer.
- Supports LIMIT+OFFSET and offset w/o LIMIT emulation under SS2005.
- Supports LIMIT+OFFSET under SS2000.
- Transparently supports Django's TextField both under SS2000 and SS2005.
- Passes most of the tests of the Django test suite.
- Compatible with SQL Server and SQL Server Native Client from Microsoft (Windows) and FreeTDS ODBC drivers (Linux).
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Install django-pyodbc.
pip install django-pyodbc -
Now you can now add a database to your settings using standard ODBC parameters.
DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': "django_pyodbc", 'HOST': "127.0.0.1,1433", 'USER': "mssql_user", 'PASSWORD': "mssql_password", 'NAME': "database_name", 'OPTIONS': { 'host_is_server': True }, } }
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That's all!
The following settings control the behavior of the backend:
NAME String. Database name. Required.
HOST String. SQL Server instance in server\instance or ip,port format.
USER String. Database user name. If not given then MS Integrated Security
will be used.
PASSWORD String. Database user password.
OPTIONS Dictionary. Current available keys are:
``driver``
String. ODBC Driver to use. Default is ``"SQL Server"`` on Windows and
``"FreeTDS"`` on other platforms.
``dsn``
String. A named DSN can be used instead of ``HOST``.
``autocommit``
Boolean. Indicates if pyodbc should direct the the ODBC driver to
activate the autocommit feature. Default value is ``False``.
``MARS_Connection``
Boolean. Only relevant when running on Windows and with SQL Server 2005
or later through MS *SQL Server Native client* driver (i.e. setting
``driver`` to ``"SQL Server Native Client 11.0"``). See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms131686.aspx.
Default value is ``False``.
``host_is_server``
Boolean. Only relevant if using the FreeTDS ODBC driver under
Unix/Linux.
By default, when using the FreeTDS ODBC driver the value specified in
the ``HOST`` setting is used in a ``SERVERNAME`` ODBC
connection string component instead of being used in a ``SERVER``
component; this means that this value should be the name of a
*dataserver* definition present in the ``freetds.conf`` FreeTDS
configuration file instead of a hostname or an IP address.
But if this option is present and it's value is True, this special
behavior is turned off.
See http://freetds.org/userguide/dsnless.htm for more information.
``extra_params``
String. Additional parameters for the ODBC connection. The format is
``"param=value;param=value"``.
``collation``
String. Name of the collation to use when performing text field lookups
against the database. For Chinese language you can set it to
``"Chinese_PRC_CI_AS"``. The default collation for the database
will be used if no value is specified.
See LICENSE.