Re: [Tutor] Alternatives to pymssql to work with MS SQL Server

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Emmanuel Ruellan" wrote Steven, sorry if my question was slightly off topic. ... I should stop considering that my questions fall into the 'beginner' category, now that I've been dabbling in Python for a few years. Steven's point was, I think, more that your question was not really about

Re: [Tutor] Alternatives to pymssql to work with MS SQL Server

2011-03-02 Thread Emmanuel Ruellan
Tim, it's raw SQL queries I want to use. Pyodbc looks fine, thanks for suggesting it to me. I'll have to test it on the specific machine on which I encountered the problem with pymssql. Raúl, thanks for the link to a list of alternatives to pymssql. You suggested that I try and change the order of

Re: [Tutor] Alternatives to pymssql to work with MS SQL Server

2011-03-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Emmanuel Ruellan wrote: What alternatives to pymssql do you recommend? I just want to be able to perform some simple queries on an MS SQL Server database. This is a mailing list for teaching beginners how to program in Python. While we're happy to help with other Python-related questions, you

Re: [Tutor] Alternatives to pymssql to work with MS SQL Server

2011-03-02 Thread Tim Golden
On 02/03/2011 09:22, Emmanuel Ruellan wrote: I installed Python 2.6 and pymssql on a machine, but as soon as I import pymssql, it crashes. It looks like this is a known problem: http://code.google.com/p/pymssql/issues/detail?id=2 What alternatives to pymssql do you recommend? I just want to be

[Tutor] Alternatives to pymssql to work with MS SQL Server

2011-03-02 Thread Emmanuel Ruellan
Hi tutors, I installed Python 2.6 and pymssql on a machine, but as soon as I import pymssql, it crashes. It looks like this is a known problem: http://code.google.com/p/pymssql/issues/detail?id=2 What alternatives to pymssql do you recommend? I just want to be able to perform some simple queries