Additonal to Denes,
I'm using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express and successfully
connection with this.
db = DAL("mssql://UserID:Password@ComputerName\SQLEXPRESS/
DatabaseName")
On Aug 31, 1:52 pm, DenesL <denes1...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> The connection string seems ok but:
> - check user and password
> - leave out the port (1433 is the default)
> - if yo are using the Express version add the instance name e.g.
> POPE\\SQLEXPRESS/xPAC
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> On Aug 31, 2:25 pm, patrick moon <pmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'm using the doc suggested connection string:
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> > db = DAL('mssql://shxxx:shaxxx@POPE:1433/xPAC')
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> > and this is the error I'm getting:
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> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "gluon/restricted.py", line 192, in restricted
> > File "C:/_dev/temp/web2py/applications/welcome/models/db.py", line
> > 18, in <module>
> > File "gluon/dal.py", line 3981, in __init__
> > RuntimeError: Failure to connect, tried 5 times:
> > 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'connect'
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> > Appreciate any help....
