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Python is one of the most popular and fastest-growing languages used today. Pyodbc<\/a> (Python-SQL Server Connector) is an open source Python module maintained by Michael Kleehammer<\/a> that uses ODBC Drivers to connect to SQL Server. It allows you to connect from the platform of your choice to SQL Server on-premises and in the cloud. Pyodbc is also cross platform and can be installed using pip<\/a>.<\/p>\n We recently announced SQL Server v.Next CTP1 on Linux and Windows<\/a>, which brings the power of SQL Server to both Windows and \u2014 for the first time ever \u2014 Linux. You can now connect your applications to SQL Server running on Linux, Windows and macOS (with Docker).<\/p>\n For our Python developers, we have a few updates that will improve Python connectivity with SQL Server. Pyodbc is now:<\/p>\n Join the conversation at https:\/\/gitter.im\/mssqldev<\/a>.<\/p>\n Python is one of the most popular and fastest-growing languages used today. Pyodbc (Python-SQL Server Connector) is an open source Python module maintained by Michael Kleehammer that uses ODBC Drivers to connect to SQL Server. It allows you to connect from the platform of your choice to SQL Server on-premises and in the cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"featured_media":36432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[],"product":[],"content-type":[2448],"topic":[],"coauthors":[2487],"class_list":["post-18056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-type-updates","review-flag-1593580427-503","review-flag-1593580419-556","review-flag-1-1593580431-15","review-flag-2-1593580436-981","review-flag-3-1593580441-293","review-flag-5-1593580452-31","review-flag-new-1593580247-437"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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