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+1  Q: 

Mac OS X 10.6 ODBC Drivers

Hi all, I'm going crazy trying to find a FOSS free (doesn't have to be open source) ODBC driver to connect to an MS SQL Server. While it doesn't strictly have to be free (which is a huge plus, for obvious reasons), the drivers I have found haven't had an easy to find price tag.

Does anyone know of any preferably free, and if not free, then relatively (sub $30, since it's just for the random times I might need it) cheap drivers for ODBC - MS SQL on OS X?

Thanks!

+2  A: 

unixODBC + FreeTDS is one way: http://www.freetds.org/ & http://www.unixodbc.org/

Adam Vandenberg  2010-10-28 04:41:55
Beat me too it!
Joshkunz  2010-10-28 04:43:18
So, using FreeTDS in conjunction with unixODBC through the iODBC Administrator will let me use pyodbc in Python? It's a bit late; haven't read through how FreeTDS matches up with unixODBC.
tjsimmons  2010-10-28 05:25:09
FreeTDS should be usable as a provider w/ pyodbc. This project for instance uses FreeTDS + pyodbc to connect to SQL Server for Django: http://code.google.com/p/django-pyodbc/
Adam Vandenberg  2010-10-28 14:07:13
I didn't use the unixODBC, since OS X has iODBC pre-installed, but after fiddling with odbc.ini (and using the right port. dumb me), I got it working. Thanks!
tjsimmons  2010-10-28 15:49:45
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Have you looked at the OpenLink Express Driver for SQL Server on Mac OS X:

http://bit.ly/aRXzM9

hwilliams  2010-10-28 14:06:39

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