Unfortunately I don't have access to a blank database and I took the
chance and ran your tests on a non-empty database. Tests are mostly
good: 5/7 pass. You should know that I used current trunk and simply
commented out the line, which resets the supports_unicode_binds but it
should be equivalent in effect to your patch. Without the patch all
tests fail. Below is pretty verbose result for you.

I hope this helps,

Victor

./sqla_nose.py -v test.sql.test_types:UnicodeTest --dburi="mssql
+pyodbc://XXXX:xxx@xxx:2431/X?
driver=SQLServer&port=2431&TDS_Version=8.0" --log-
debug=sqlalchemy.orm.mapper --log-debug=sqlalchemy.pool --log-
debug=sqlalchemy.engine
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Created new connection
<pyodbc.Connection object at 0xa3fdfa0>
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT user_name() as user_name;
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('user_name',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'SPEED_IT', )
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:
            SELECT default_schema_name FROM
            sys.database_principals
            WHERE name = ?
            AND type = 'S'

INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'SPEED_IT',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('default_schema_name',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'dbo', )
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA],
[COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE], [COLUMNS_1].
[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].[CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH],
[COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE],
[COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].[COLLATION_NAME]
FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'unicode_table', u'dbo')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('TABLE_SCHEMA', 'TABLE_NAME',
'COLUMN_NAME', 'IS_NULLABLE', 'DATA_TYPE', 'ORDINAL_POSITION',
'CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH', 'NUMERIC_PRECISION', 'NUMERIC_SCALE',
'COLUMN_DEFAULT', 'COLLATION_NAME')
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:
CREATE TABLE unicode_table (
        id INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1),
        unicode_varchar NVARCHAR(250) NULL,
        unicode_text NTEXT NULL,
        PRIMARY KEY (id)
)


INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_blank_strings ...
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:INSERT INTO unicode_table
(unicode_varchar) OUTPUT inserted.id VALUES (?)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('id',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (1, )
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT
unicode_table.unicode_varchar
FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('unicode_varchar',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'', )
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:DELETE FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
ok
test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_ignoring_unicode_error ...
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Created new connection
<pyodbc.Connection object at 0xa4490e0>
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT user_name() as user_name;
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('user_name',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'SPEED_IT', )
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:
            SELECT default_schema_name FROM
            sys.database_principals
            WHERE name = ?
            AND type = 'S'

INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'SPEED_IT',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('default_schema_name',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'dbo', )
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA],
[COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE], [COLUMNS_1].
[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].[CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH],
[COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE],
[COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].[COLLATION_NAME]
FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'unicode_err_table', u'dbo')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('TABLE_SCHEMA', 'TABLE_NAME',
'COLUMN_NAME', 'IS_NULLABLE', 'DATA_TYPE', 'ORDINAL_POSITION',
'CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH', 'NUMERIC_PRECISION', 'NUMERIC_SCALE',
'COLUMN_DEFAULT', 'COLLATION_NAME')
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:
CREATE TABLE unicode_err_table (
        sort INTEGER NULL,
        plain_varchar_no_coding_error VARCHAR(248) NULL
)


INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:INSERT INTO unicode_err_table
(sort, plain_varchar_no_coding_error) VALUES (?, ?)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(1, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drle de petite voix ma rveill.
Elle disait:  Sil vous plat dessine-moi un mouton! ')
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT unicode_err_table.sort,
unicode_err_table.plain_varchar_no_coding_error
FROM unicode_err_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('sort',
'plain_varchar_no_coding_error')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (1, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drle de petite voix ma rveill.
Elle disait:  Sil vous plat dessine-moi un mouton! ')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:INSERT INTO unicode_err_table
(sort, plain_varchar_no_coding_error) VALUES (?, ?)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(2, u'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a
r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026
dessine-moi un mouton! \xbb')
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT unicode_err_table.sort,
unicode_err_table.plain_varchar_no_coding_error
FROM unicode_err_table ORDER BY unicode_err_table.sort
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('sort',
'plain_varchar_no_coding_error')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (1, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drle de petite voix ma rveill.
Elle disait:  Sil vous plat dessine-moi un mouton! ')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (2, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m?a r
\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S?il vous pla\xeet? dessine-moi un
mouton! ')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA],
[COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE], [COLUMNS_1].
[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].[CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH],
[COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE],
[COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].[COLLATION_NAME]
FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'unicode_err_table', u'dbo')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('TABLE_SCHEMA', 'TABLE_NAME',
'COLUMN_NAME', 'IS_NULLABLE', 'DATA_TYPE', 'ORDINAL_POSITION',
'CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH', 'NUMERIC_PRECISION', 'NUMERIC_SCALE',
'COLUMN_DEFAULT', 'COLLATION_NAME')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'dbo', u'unicode_err_table',
u'sort', 'YES', u'int', 1, None, 10, 0, None, None)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:
DROP TABLE unicode_err_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
FAIL
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:DELETE FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_native_unicode ... FAIL
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:DELETE FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_round_trip ...
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:INSERT INTO unicode_table
(unicode_varchar, unicode_text) OUTPUT inserted.id VALUES (?, ?)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise,
au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill
\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un
mouton! \xbb', u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour,
quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle
disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un mouton!
\xbb')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('id',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (2, )
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT unicode_table.id,
unicode_table.unicode_varchar, unicode_table.unicode_text
FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('id', 'unicode_varchar',
'unicode_text')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (2, u'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a
r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026
dessine-moi un mouton! \xbb', u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au
lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill
\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un
mouton! \xbb')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:DELETE FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
ok
test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_round_trip_executemany ...
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:INSERT INTO unicode_table
(unicode_varchar, unicode_text) VALUES (?, ?)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:((u'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a
r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026
dessine-moi un mouton! \xbb', u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au
lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill
\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un
mouton! \xbb'), (u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour,
quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle
disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un mouton!
\xbb', u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour, quand une
dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S
\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un mouton! \xbb'))
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT unicode_table.id,
unicode_table.unicode_varchar, unicode_table.unicode_text
FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('id', 'unicode_varchar',
'unicode_text')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (3, u'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a
r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026
dessine-moi un mouton! \xbb', u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au
lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill
\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un
mouton! \xbb')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:DELETE FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
ok
test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_unicode_warnings ...
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:DELETE FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
ok
test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_union ...
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:INSERT INTO unicode_table
(unicode_varchar, unicode_text) OUTPUT inserted.id VALUES (?, ?)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise,
au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill
\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un
mouton! \xbb', u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour,
quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle
disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un mouton!
\xbb')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('id',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (5, )
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT
unicode_table.unicode_varchar
FROM unicode_table UNION SELECT unicode_table.unicode_varchar
FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('unicode_varchar',)
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a
r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026
dessine-moi un mouton! \xbb', )
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:DELETE FROM unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
ok
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> checked out from pool
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:SELECT [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA],
[COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE], [COLUMNS_1].
[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].[CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH],
[COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE],
[COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].[COLLATION_NAME]
FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:(u'unicode_table', u'dbo')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Col ('TABLE_SCHEMA', 'TABLE_NAME',
'COLUMN_NAME', 'IS_NULLABLE', 'DATA_TYPE', 'ORDINAL_POSITION',
'CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH', 'NUMERIC_PRECISION', 'NUMERIC_SCALE',
'COLUMN_DEFAULT', 'COLLATION_NAME')
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:Row (u'dbo', u'unicode_table',
u'id', 'NO', u'int', 1, None, 10, 0, None, None)
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:
DROP TABLE unicode_table
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:()
INFO:sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine:COMMIT
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa3fdfa0> being returned to pool
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Closing connection <pyodbc.Connection
object at 0xa4490e0>
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Exception closing connection
<pyodbc.Connection object at 0xa4490e0>
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Closing connection <pyodbc.Connection
object at 0xa3fdfa0>
DEBUG:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Exception closing connection
<pyodbc.Connection object at 0xa3fdfa0>
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool disposed. Pool size: 5
Connections in pool: 0 Current Overflow: -5 Current Checked out
connections: 0
INFO:sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool:Pool recreating

======================================================================
FAIL: test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_ignoring_unicode_error
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/home/vo63573/satest/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nose/
case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "<string>", line 1, in <lambda>
  File "/opt/home/vo63573/satest/src/sqlalchemy/./test/lib/
testing.py", line 53, in decorate
    return fn(*args, **kw)
  File "/opt/home/vo63573/satest/src/sqlalchemy/./test/sql/
test_types.py", line 833, in test_ignoring_unicode_error
    eq_(x, unicodedata)
  File "/opt/home/vo63573/satest/src/sqlalchemy/./test/lib/
testing.py", line 499, in eq_
    assert a == b, msg or "%r != %r" % (a, b)
AssertionError: u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour,
quand une drle de petite voix m?a rveill. Elle disait:  S?il vous
plat? dessine-moi un mouton! ' != u'Alors vous imaginez ma surprise,
au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a r\xe9veill
\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026 dessine-moi un
mouton! \xbb'
-------------------- >> begin captured logging << --------------------
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Created new connection
<pyodbc.Connection object at 0xa4490e0>
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: SELECT user_name() as user_name;
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: ()
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Col ('user_name',)
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Row (u'SPEED_IT', )
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO:
            SELECT default_schema_name FROM
            sys.database_principals
            WHERE name = ?
            AND type = 'S'

sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: (u'SPEED_IT',)
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Col ('default_schema_name',)
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Row (u'dbo', )
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: SELECT [COLUMNS_1].
[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_NAME],
[COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE], [COLUMNS_1].
[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].[CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH],
[COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE],
[COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].[COLLATION_NAME]
FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: (u'unicode_err_table', u'dbo')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Col ('TABLE_SCHEMA',
'TABLE_NAME', 'COLUMN_NAME', 'IS_NULLABLE', 'DATA_TYPE',
'ORDINAL_POSITION', 'CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH', 'NUMERIC_PRECISION',
'NUMERIC_SCALE', 'COLUMN_DEFAULT', 'COLLATION_NAME')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO:
CREATE TABLE unicode_err_table (
        sort INTEGER NULL,
        plain_varchar_no_coding_error VARCHAR(248) NULL
)


sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: ()
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: COMMIT
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: INSERT INTO unicode_err_table
(sort, plain_varchar_no_coding_error) VALUES (?, ?)
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: (1, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drle de petite voix ma rveill.
Elle disait:  Sil vous plat dessine-moi un mouton! ')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: COMMIT
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: SELECT unicode_err_table.sort,
unicode_err_table.plain_varchar_no_coding_error
FROM unicode_err_table
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: ()
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Col ('sort',
'plain_varchar_no_coding_error')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Row (1, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drle de petite voix ma rveill.
Elle disait:  Sil vous plat dessine-moi un mouton! ')
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: INSERT INTO unicode_err_table
(sort, plain_varchar_no_coding_error) VALUES (?, ?)
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: (2, u'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m\u2019a
r\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S\u2019il vous pla\xeet\u2026
dessine-moi un mouton! \xbb')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: COMMIT
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: SELECT unicode_err_table.sort,
unicode_err_table.plain_varchar_no_coding_error
FROM unicode_err_table ORDER BY unicode_err_table.sort
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: ()
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Col ('sort',
'plain_varchar_no_coding_error')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Row (1, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drle de petite voix ma rveill.
Elle disait:  Sil vous plat dessine-moi un mouton! ')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Row (2, 'Alors vous imaginez ma
surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr\xf4le de petite voix m?a r
\xe9veill\xe9. Elle disait: \xab S?il vous pla\xeet? dessine-moi un
mouton! ')
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> checked out from pool
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: SELECT [COLUMNS_1].
[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_NAME],
[COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE], [COLUMNS_1].
[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].[CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH],
[COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE],
[COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].[COLLATION_NAME]
FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: (u'unicode_err_table', u'dbo')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Col ('TABLE_SCHEMA',
'TABLE_NAME', 'COLUMN_NAME', 'IS_NULLABLE', 'DATA_TYPE',
'ORDINAL_POSITION', 'CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH', 'NUMERIC_PRECISION',
'NUMERIC_SCALE', 'COLUMN_DEFAULT', 'COLLATION_NAME')
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: DEBUG: Row (u'dbo',
u'unicode_err_table', u'sort', 'YES', u'int', 1, None, 10, 0, None,
None)
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO:
DROP TABLE unicode_err_table
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: ()
sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine: INFO: COMMIT
sqlalchemy.pool.QueuePool: DEBUG: Connection <pyodbc.Connection object
at 0xa4490e0> being returned to pool
--------------------- >> end captured logging << ---------------------

======================================================================
FAIL: test.sql.test_types.UnicodeTest.test_native_unicode
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/home/vo63573/satest/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nose/
case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/opt/home/vo63573/satest/src/sqlalchemy/./test/sql/
test_types.py", line 636, in test_native_unicode
    testing.db.dialect.returns_unicode_strings)
AssertionError: name: mssql driver pyodbc
returns_unicode_strings=conditional

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 7 tests in 0.358s




On Sep 8, 12:59 pm, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
> Hi Victor  -
>
> Since you're there, do you have any luck actually running unit tests ?   The 
> test in particular here is:
>
> ./sqla_nose.py  -v test.sql.test_types:UnicodeTest 
> --dburi=mssql+pyodbc://user:pass@dsn
>
> Also, on the Mac, iODBC is the standard ODBC product.  unixODBC can be built 
> though in the past I've found this to have problems - I'll see if I can look 
> into it again if I have time.
>
> I have no doubt that this works on linux so the path to my getting this patch 
> committed is to get everything installed on a linux VM, and getting the tests 
> to run as well as they did before at least on that platform.
>
> For OSX I'm not sure where that will lead - if we need to put a doc on the 
> site saying, "you need to replace OSX's standard ODBC install", then that 
> will be that, but would need to check that all out first.
>
> Also sorry I missed that pyodbc ticket 192 was yours.    Disturbing that 
> there's no response from the maintainer ?
>
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Victor Olex wrote:
>
> > I know of those issues with pyodbc package. Michael, please read my
> > first response where I wrote how to build the unixODBC, FreeTDS and
> > pyodbc stack. I gave this detail for a reason - i.e. that you can
> > replicate my built.
>
> > By the way I did sqlalchemy level testing as promised. Predictably,
> > the DDL using both patched and non-patched PyODBCCOnnector executes
> > correctly. The only difference is that parameters are bound to unicode
> > strings in the former. This actually works exactly as I would expect
> > it i.e. accepts plain string for Unicode fields. Most fields in
> > COLUMNS table are sysdate, which generally equates to nvarchar(128).
> > Here's complete screenshot for you.
>
> > ### Without patch:
>
> > In [29]: speed.metadata.create_all()
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,094 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,094 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ('A',
> > 'dbo')
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,099 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,099 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ('B',
> > 'CMBS')
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,102 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine
> > CREATE TABLE [A] (
> >        [ID] INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1),
> >        col1 NTEXT NULL,
> >        col2 VARCHAR(255) NULL,
> >        PRIMARY KEY ([ID])
> > )
>
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,102 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ()
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,152 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,154 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine
> > CREATE TABLE [CMBS].[B] (
> >        [ID] INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1),
> >        col1 NTEXT NULL,
> >        PRIMARY KEY ([ID])
> > )
>
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,154 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ()
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:01,184 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT
>
> > In [30]: speed.metadata.drop_all()
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,729 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,729 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ('B',
> > 'CMBS')
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,734 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,734 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ('A',
> > 'dbo')
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,737 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine
> > DROP TABLE [CMBS].[B]
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,737 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ()
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,825 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,827 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine
> > DROP TABLE [A]
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,827 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ()
> > 2011-09-08 12:17:04,850 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT
>
> > ### With patch:
>
> > In [5]: speed.metadata.drop_all()
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,596 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > user_name() as user_name;
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,597 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ()
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,599 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine
> >            SELECT default_schema_name FROM
> >            sys.database_principals
> >            WHERE name = ?
> >            AND type = 'S'
>
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,599 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine (u'XXXX',)
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,608 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,608 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine (u'B',
> > u'CMBS')
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,612 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:35,612 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine (u'A',
> > u'dbo')
>
> > In [6]: speed.metadata.create_all()
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,391 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,391 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine (u'A',
> > u'dbo')
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,395 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT
> > [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA], [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLUMN_NAME], [COLUMNS_1].[IS_NULLABLE], [COLUMNS_1].[DATA_TYPE],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[ORDINAL_POSITION], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH], [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_PRECISION],
> > [COLUMNS_1].[NUMERIC_SCALE], [COLUMNS_1].[COLUMN_DEFAULT], [COLUMNS_1].
> > [COLLATION_NAME]
> > FROM [INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[COLUMNS] AS [COLUMNS_1]
> > WHERE [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_NAME] = ? AND [COLUMNS_1].[TABLE_SCHEMA] = ?
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,395 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine (u'B',
> > u'CMBS')
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,397 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine
> > CREATE TABLE [A] (
> >        [ID] INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1),
> >        col1 NTEXT NULL,
> >        col2 VARCHAR(255) NULL,
> >        PRIMARY KEY ([ID])
> > )
>
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,397 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ()
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,487 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,489 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine
> > CREATE TABLE [CMBS].[B] (
> >        [ID] INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1),
> >        col1 NTEXT NULL,
> >        PRIMARY KEY ([ID])
> > )
>
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,490 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine ()
> > 2011-09-08 12:20:50,514 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT
>
> > On Sep 8, 11:51 am, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
> >> On Sep 8, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Victor Olex wrote:
>
> >>> Pyodbc issue 209 works fine in my setup.
>
> >> that is very strange ?   There are files missing from the .zip.  If you 
> >> installed from the zip I don't see how it built for you.  Here's the 
> >> original issue:
>
> >>http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/issues/detail?id=192
>
> >>> I think the key thing is
> >>> matching SQL Server version with the correct TDS protocol version and
> >>> correct FreeTDS version.
>
> >> I use tds version 8.0 for this particular DSN and that is working fine in 
> >> production with FreeTDS 0.82, on both linux and OSX platforms.   These 
> >> issues have all been introduced with FreeTDS 0.91.   Here, I tried 7.2 and 
> >> got slightly better results, though unicode round trips still fail when 
> >> Python unicodes are passed.    PyODBC still dies with "MemoryError" if I 
> >> attempt to query for a table that already exists.
>
> >>> Also with regards
>
> ...
>
> read more »

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