pymssql 0.8.0 review

pymssql module provides access to MS SQL Servers from Python scripts. It's the most efficient method of accessing MS SQL Server's

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Andrzej Kukula

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pymssql module provides access to MS SQL Servers from Python scripts.

It's the most efficient method of accessing MS SQL Server's data from Python scripts. If you care about performance, you can give it a try.

Supported Platforms

pymssql 0.7.4 has been tested on FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 2.1, 3.0, Linux with kernel 2.6, and Windows XP. It should also run on other platforms.
pymssql 0.7.1 has been tested on FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0, NetBSD 2.0.2, Linux with kernel 2.6, Solaris 10/x86, Mac OS X (thanks Joseph Kocherhans) and Windows XP. It should also run on other platforms.
If you have any experience with other platforms, just let me know and I'll add the info here.

Supported SQL Server versions

pymssql 0.7.4 on *BSD, Linux was successfully tested with SQL Server 2000, all service pack levels.
pymssql 0.7.4 on Windows was successfully tested with SQL Server 2000 RTM, SP3a and SP4, and with SQL Server 2005 RTM (9.00.1399.06).

Here are some key features of "pymssql":
Supports connecting to MS SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 servers, all editions and service pack levels.
Supports named instances and non-standard port numbers.
Great performance: it uses MS SQL DB-Library for C instead of Win32 ODBC.
Multiple Query/Multiple Result.
Supports "almost all" of the DB-API 2.0.

Requirements:
Python 2.4 or newer
FreeTDS 0.63

What's New in This Release:
This is the first release under the LGPL.
It's compatible with Python 2.5 and has a number of minor bugfixes.