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title: Download and install "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express"

title: If your python world isn't in order, pip and virtualenv can help

#!/usr/bin/env bash
deactivate 2>/dev/null
sudo yum remove python-pip python-virtualenv
sudo yum install --updated -y python python-setuptools python-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel curl
mkdir -P ~/src/pip
cd ~/src/pip
curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

title: Install TDS and ODBC for linux

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo yum install --updated -y pcre pcre-devel gcc make autoconf automake unixODBC* freetds*

title: Backup and edit /etc/odbcinst.ini

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo cp /etc/odbcinst.ini /etc/odbcinst.ini.bak
echo '
[FreeTDS]
Description=TDS driver (Sybase / MS SQL)
Driver=/usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so
Setup=/usr/lib64/libtdS.so
FileUsage=1
' >> /etc/odbcinst.ini

title: Add the DB to your Django settings.DATABASES

#!/usr/bin/env python
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
       'ENGINE': 'sql_server.pyodbc'  
        'NAME': 'mydatabasename',                 
        'USER': 'yourusername',
        'PASSWORD': 'yourpassword',
        'HOST': '192.168.1.127',
        # 'HOST': 'fully.qualified.domain.nm',
        'PORT': '1433',  
        'OPTIONS':{  'host_is_server': True,    }                
    },
}

from django.db import connections conn = connections['default'] print conn.introspection.table_names(conn.cursor()) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~