Accessing SQL Server

This simple example shows to use IronPython to access a SQL Server database such as the free SQL 2005 Express edition.

import clr clr.AddReference('System.Data') from System.Data import *

TheConnection = SqlClient.SqlConnection("server=yourserver;database=News;uid=sa;password=password") TheConnection.Open

MyAction = SqlClient.SqlCommand("Select Headline from News", TheConnection) MyReader = MyAction.ExecuteReader

while MyReader.Read: print MyReader[0]

MyReader.Close TheConnection.Close

More detail on the Reader class is available on MSDN.

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