Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience
- Developers
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
- Python :: 3.14
- Python :: 3.15
- Python :: Implementation :: CPython
Topic
- Database
- Database :: Database Engines/Servers
- Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Operating System
- Microsoft :: Windows
- POSIX
- Unix
pymssql - DB-API interface to Microsoft SQL Server
A simple database interface for Python that builds on top of FreeTDS to provide a Python DB-API (PEP-249) interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
Detailed information on pymssql is available on the website:
New development is happening on GitHub at:
There is a Google Group for discussion at:
Getting started
pymssql wheels are available from PyPi. To install it run:
pip install -U pip
pip install pymssql
Most of the times this should be all what’s needed. The official pymssql wheels bundle a static copy of FreeTDS and have SSL support so they can be used to connect to Azure.
Basic example
conn = pymssql.connect(server, user, password, "tempdb")
cursor = conn.cursor(as_dict=True)
cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM persons WHERE salesrep=%s', 'John Doe')
for row in cursor:
print("ID=%d, Name=%s" % (row['id'], row['name']))
conn.close()
Recent Changes
Version 2.4.6 - 2026-10-26 - Mikhail Terekhov
General
Switch to MacOS-14 for building wheels
bulk-copy(): fix case of temp tables (fixes #1021), thanks amgcc
Version 2.4.5 - 2026-10-19 - Mikhail Terekhov
General
Add native Windows arm64 wheel builds, thanks to knightmare2600
bulk-copy(): preserve supplied identity values (fixes #814)
bulk_copy(): encode Unicode for nvarchar bulk copy (fix #725,#917)