Pypyodbc: Can't open lib 'FreeTDS' : file not found") error when trying to connect to SQL server
Check your /etc/odbcinst.ini or it could be under /etc/unixODBC/odbcinst.ini
In your connection string you have something like this "DRIVER=FreeTDS" there needs to be an entry in that file like the following. You may need to change your driver location.
[FreeTDS]Description = FreeTDS unixODBC DriverDriver = /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0Setup = /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0UsageCount = 1
First, you can use pymssql which doesn't require configuring unixODBC, which is the problem here.
To configure unixODBC with FreeTDS, do the following: http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/FreeTDS.html
There's a tool that comes with FreeTDS, tsql. Use it to test your connection string. It's a very bare bones tool and something of a pain. :-/
Finally, there's a similar question with other problems in StackOverflow: How do I configure pyodbc to correctly accept strings from SQL Server using freeTDS and unixODBC?