I wanted to use SQL Server as the backend for Django, but I got this when debugging the web project. 'sql_server.pyodbc' isn't an available database backend. Error was: No module named sql_server.pyodbc.base.
Python Environments (Python 2.7) with Django (1.7), pyodbc(3.0.10), pywin32(218.3). And here is my settings.py:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'sql_server.pyodbc',
'NAME': 'DatabaseName',
'USER': 'user',
'PASSWORD': 'pwd',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '',
'OPTIONS': {
'driver': 'SQL Server Native Client 11.0',
'server': 'ServerName',
'MARS_Connection': True,
'dsn': 'MSSQL-PYTHON',
},
}
}
You have not installed the package with the required DB backend.
Do:
pip install django-pyodbc
pip install django-pyodbc-azure
See this doc and this one.
An example of the database settings from the second link:
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',
},
},
}
#set this to `False` if you want to turn off pyodbc's connection pooling:
DATABASE_CONNECTION_POOLING = False
Take a look at this link:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'NAME': 'my_database',
'ENGINE': 'sqlserver_ado',
'HOST': 'dbserver\\ss2008',
'USER': '',
'PASSWORD': '',
}
}
Supposedly you can use SQL Server with Django MSSQL (link above). you might want to check the [Django documentation] to see what other database support django supports "natively". (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#databases)