topic Connection to Azure SQL Server: ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server in Data Engineering

Connection to Azure SQL Server: ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server

js54123875 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 21:18:55 GMT

Task:

Setup connection to Azure SQL Server.

A couple things have changed...

*We've started using Unity Catalog, so need Unity Catalog -enabled clusters

*Legacy init scripts have been deprecated, and this is how we had our pyodbc setup, etc. defined.

Code:

import pyodbc
def build_odbc_connection(dbserver, dbname, username, pwd):
  conn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server};SERVER='+dbserver+';DATABASE='+dbname+';ENCRYPT=yes;UID='+username+';PWD='+ pwd)
  return conn
 
def execute_azsql_query(sqlquery):
  conn = build_odbc_connection(sec_SourceServer, sec_SourceDatabase,sec_SinkAzSqlAppID,sec_SinkAzSqlSecret)
  df = pd.read_sql(sqlquery,conn)
  conn.close()
  return df
 
execute_azsql_query('select * from dbo.client')

Error:

('01000', "[01000] [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib 'ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server' : file not found (0) (SQLDriverConnect)")

What am I missing here? Thanks!

Re: Connection to Azure SQL Server: ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:20:56 GMT

Hi @Jennette Shepard

Hope everything is going great.

Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue. If yes, would you be happy to mark an answer as best so that other members can find the solution more quickly? If not, please tell us so we can help you.

Cheers!

Re: Connection to Azure SQL Server: ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server

js54123875 — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:00:17 GMT

Thanks for checking in. Yes the driver is not installed, but I'm not sure the current correct way to install

Re: Connection to Azure SQL Server: ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server

diego_poggioli — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 07:21:54 GMT

Hi @js54123875 did you manage to find a solution for this? I'm facing a similar problem.

Thanks

Diego

Re: Connection to Azure SQL Server: ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server

js54123875 — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:10:47 GMT

Hi @Jodie - We're using this jdbc driver to connect Query SQL Server with Databricks | Databricks on AWS