sqpy (pronounced skippy)

is a CSV exporter from MSSQL using pyodbc

It's meant to replace sqsh, but is much poorer in features and much less complex

Prerequisites

This package uses MS ODBC driver.

On Debian or Ubuntu, this should be sufficient:

sudo su 
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -

#Download appropriate package for the OS version
#Choose only ONE of the following, corresponding to your OS version

#Debian 8
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/8/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list

#Debian 9
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/9/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list

#Ubuntu 14.04
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/14.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list

#Ubuntu 16.04
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list

#Ubuntu 18.04
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list

#Ubuntu 18.10
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.10/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list

exit
sudo apt-get update
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install msodbcsql17

On RHEL

sudo su

#Download appropriate package for the OS version
#Choose only ONE of the following, corresponding to your OS version

#RedHat Enterprise Server 6
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/6/prod.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-release.repo

#RedHat Enterprise Server 7
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-release.repo

exit
sudo yum remove unixODBC-utf16 unixODBC-utf16-devel #to avoid conflicts
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y yum install msodbcsql17
# optional: for bcp and sqlcmd
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y yum install mssql-tools
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
# optional: for unixODBC development headers
sudo yum install unixODBC-devel

On Mac OS

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew tap microsoft/mssql-release https://github.com/Microsoft/homebrew-mssql-release
brew update
brew install msodbcsql17

On Arch Linux

yay -S mssql-tools

Setup

Dev libraries for Linux:

# Debian only
sudo apt-get install g++

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt install unixodbc-dev

# RHEL, CentOS
sudo yum install gcc-c++ python-devel unixODBC-devel

# Fedora
sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config gcc-c++ unixODBC-devel

# OpenSUSE
sudo zypper install gcc-c++ unixODBC-devel

Option 1: In a virtual environment:

python setup.py install

Option 2: Install globally

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/kfzteile24/sqpy.git

Usage example

Using freetds-compatible aliases, defined in /etc/freetds/freetds.conf

echo "SELECT TOP 10 * FROM my_table" | sqpy -U sqpy_user -P 'very secret' -S my_db_alias -D my_db -m csv > result.csv

for other usages consult help:

sqpy --help

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Note that this library will remove the extra \go from the end of the query, and also clears the escape sequences for the $ symbol that was necessary for sqsh. It doesn't support sqsh parameters.

If you're having trouble with encoding of queries or of the formation of the output, set the PYTHONIOENCODING environment variable when calling this script. Example:

cat query.sql | PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8 sqpy [...] -m csv