[sqlalchemy] Re: connecting to ODBC backed by MS-SQL?

2007-04-16 Thread Victor Ng
Ach my sqlserver instance seems to just take a long time and I'm too impatient. create_engine('mssql://localhost/some_db_name') takes 10 seconds for some reason, but it does work. weird. vic On Apr 16, 11:09 am, Victor Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a simple example of how to

[sqlalchemy] Re: connecting to ODBC backed by MS-SQL?

2007-04-16 Thread Victor Ng
I'm getting some pretty strange behavior when connecting to SQL Server. My code is pretty straight forward, just create an engine, create metadata, introspect on a table... from sqlalchemy import * db = create_engine('mssql://./msdb') meta = BoundMetaData(db) tbl = Table('sysdtssteplog', meta,

[sqlalchemy] Re: connecting to ODBC backed by MS-SQL?

2007-04-16 Thread Victor Ng
Oops - fingers are faster than my brain. Here's the snippet from the second attempt at creating a Table using autoload, and it succeeds. --- In [10]: tbl = Table('sysdtssteplog', meta, autoload=True) In [11]: [c.name for c in tbl.columns] Out[11]: ['stepexecutionid', 'lineagefull',

[sqlalchemy] Re: connecting to ODBC backed by MS-SQL?

2007-04-16 Thread Rick Morrison
It sounds like its getting to be time to make pyodbc the preferred DBAPI interface for MSSQL. I'll start a new thread to see if there's any objections. On 4/16/07, Victor Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sweet! This seems to work well now. Is there a way I can update the documentation for the