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Django backend for MS SQL Server and Windows Azure SQL Database using pyodbc

Project description

django-pyodbc-azure

django-pyodbc-azure is a refined fork of django-pyodbc, a Django MS SQL Server external DB backend that uses ODBC by employing the pyodbc library. It supports MS SQL Server and Windows Azure SQL Database.

Features

  • Supports Django 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5

  • Supports MS SQL Server 2005, 2008/2008R2, 2012, and Windows Azure SQL Database

  • Supports LIMIT+OFFSET and offset w/o LIMIT emulation.

  • Passes most of the tests of the Django test suite.

  • Compatible with SQL Server and SQL Server Native Client (Windows), Micosoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server and FreeTDS (Linux) ODBC drivers.

Dependencies

  • Django 1.2 or newer

  • pyodbc 2.1 or newer

Installation

  1. Install pyodbc

  2. Install django-pyodbc-azure

    pip install django-pyodbc-azure
  3. Now you can point the ENGINE setting in the settings file used by your Django application or project to the 'sql_server.pyodbc' module path

    'ENGINE': 'sql_server.pyodbc'

Configuration

The following database-level settings control the behavior of the backend:

Standard Django settings

  • ENGINE

    String. It must be "sql_server.pyodbc".

  • NAME

    String. Database name. Required.

  • HOST

    String. SQL Server instance in "server\instance" (on-premise) or "server.database.windows.net" (Windows Azure SQL Database) format.

  • PORT

    String. Server instance port. An empty string means the default port.

  • USER

    String. Database user name in "user" (on-premise) or "user@server" (Windows Azure SQL Database) format. If not given then MS Integrated Security will be used.

  • PASSWORD

    String. Database user password.

  • TEST_NAME

    String. The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used, the test database will use the name “test_” + NAME.

  • TEST_COLLATION

    String. The collation order to use when creating the test database. If the default value (None) is used, the test database is assigned the default collation of the instance of SQL Server.

  • TEST_CREATE

    Boolean. If it is set to False, the test database won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. This is useful not to be charged too much for creating new databases in every test when you run tests with Windows Azure SQL Database.

  • TEST_DEPENDENCIES

    String. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the official Django documentation for more details.

  • TEST_MIRROR

    String. The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. Default value is None. See the official Django documentation for more details.

OPTIONS

Dictionary. Current available keys are:

  • autocommit

    Boolean. Indicates if pyodbc should direct the ODBC driver to activate the autocommit feature. Default value is False.

  • MARS_Connection

    Boolean. Only relevant when using Microsoft’s SQL Server drivers (SQL Server Native Client or ODBC Driver for SQL Server). Default value is False.

  • driver

    String. ODBC Driver to use ("SQL Server Native Client 11.0" etc). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130892.aspx. Default is "SQL Server" on Windows and "FreeTDS" on other platforms.

  • dsn

    String. A named DSN can be used instead of HOST.

  • host_is_server

    Boolean. Only relevant if using the FreeTDS ODBC driver under Unix/Linux.

    By default, when using the FreeTDS ODBC driver the value specified in the HOST setting is used in a SERVERNAME ODBC connection string component instead of being used in a SERVER component; this means that this value should be the name of a dataserver definition present in the freetds.conf FreeTDS configuration file instead of a hostname or an IP address.

    But if this option is present and it’s value is True, this special behavior is turned off.

    See http://www.freetds.org/userguide/dsnless.htm for more information.

  • extra_params

    String. Additional parameters for the ODBC connection. The format is "param=value;param=value".

  • collation

    String. Name of the collation to use when performing text field lookups against the database. Default is None; this means no collation specifier is added to your lookup SQL (the default collation of your database will be used). For Chinese language you can set it to "Chinese_PRC_CI_AS".

  • use_legacy_datetime

    Boolean. DateField, TimeField and DateTimeField of models are mapped to SQL Server’s legacy datetime type if the value is True (the same behavior as the original django-pyodbc). Otherwise, they are mapped to new dedicated data types (date, time, datetime2). Default value is False, and note that the feature is always activated when you use SQL Server 2005 or FreeTDS.

backend-specific settings

The following project-level settings also control the behavior of the backend:

  • DATABASE_CONNECTION_POOLING

    Boolean. If it is set to False, pyodbc’s connection pooling feature won’t be activated.

Example

Here is an example of the database settings:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'sql_server.pyodbc',
        'NAME': 'mydb',
        'USER': 'user@myserver',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
        'HOST': 'myserver.database.windows.net',
        'PORT': '',

        'OPTIONS': {
            'driver': 'SQL Server Native Client 11.0',
            'MARS_Connection': True,
        },
    },
}

# set this to False if you want to turn off pyodbc's connection pooling
DATABASE_CONNECTION_POOLING = False

Utilities

backend-specific aggregation classes

A couple of aggregation classes specific to SQL Server (Avg, StdDev, Variance) are bundled with the backend. Instead of Django’s standard ones, you can use them like this:

from sql_server.pyodbc.aggregates import Avg

vals = Book.objects.aggregate(Avg('price'))

And you can use Django’s standard classes for other aggregating operations.

License

New BSD LICENSE

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