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Install open-source sqlite ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) Driver for Mac to access SQLite database from Max. You can use paid version of Sqlite ODBC.
Sandboxed applications don’t have permission to create or modify files and folders in your system. This is caused by the System Integrity Protection (SIP) technology on macOS that is designed to protect your files and folders from potentially malicious software by locking them.
In the context of ODBC drivers, sandboxed applications don’t have permission to access iODBC Driver Manager on macOS. When retrieving data from a database into an application such as Excel via ODBC Driver for SQLite on macOS, you may get an error message saying that the driver is unable to create a file.
Note that all third-party apps distributed through the Mac App Store are sandboxed.
Disabling System Integration Protection (SIP) on macOS
To give your application the necessary permission and get rid of the error message, you need to turn off SIP on your macOS.
- Turn off your Mac.
- Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by restarting your computer and holding down Command + R until you see the Apple logo on your screen.
- Click Utilities > Terminal.
- In the Terminal window, type in csrutil disable and press Enter.
- Restart your Mac by entering reboot in the Terminal.
After reboot, your Mac start will SIP disabled and you’ll be able to fetch data through an ODBC driver without any errors. You can check the status of SIP by entering csrutil status in the Terminal. The message should say: 'System Integrity Protection status: disabled'.
Don’t forget to re-enable SIP when you finish retrieving data into a third-party application from an ODBC source. You can turn on SIP by following the above instructions and typing in csrutil enable at step 4.
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The following instructions assume you already have a SQL Server database running somewhere that your Mac has network access to. Just FYI, Microsoft's instructions for installing the latest drivers are here.
Install FreeTDS and unixODBC
The connection to SQL Server will be made using the unixODBC driver manager and the FreeTDS driver. Installing them is most easily done using
homebrew
, the Mac package manager:Edit the freetds.conf configuration file
Ensure the
freetds.conf
file is located in directory /usr/local/etc/
, which will be a symlink to the actual file as installed by Homebrew. Check the specific location of the freetds.conf
file by running tsql -C
. The default file already contains a standard example configuration, but all you need to do is add your server information to the end, as follows:There are other key/value pairs that can be added but this shouldn't usually be necessary, see here for details. The
host
parameter should be either the network name (or IP address) of the database server, or 'localhost' if SQL Server is running directly on your Mac (e.g. using Docker). A TDS version of 7.3 should be OK for SQL Server 2008 and newer, but bear in mind you might need a different value for older versions of SQL Server. For more information on TDS protocol versions see Choosing a TDS protocol version. Do not use TDS versions 8.0 or 9.0 though. Oddly, they are not newer than version 7.4. They are actually obsolete aliases for older TDS versions and their use is discouraged.Test the connection using the
tsql
utility, e.g. tsql -S MYMSSQL -U myuser -P mypassword
. If this works, you should see the following:At this point you can run SQL queries, e.g. 'SELECT @@VERSION' but you'll need to enter 'GO' on a separate line to actually execute the query. Type
exit
to get out of the interactive session.Edit the odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini configuration files
Run
odbcinst -j
to get the location of the odbcinst.ini
and odbc.ini
files (probably in the directory /usr/local/etc/
). Edit odbcinst.ini
to include the following:Edit
odbc.ini
to include the following:Note, the 'Driver' is the name of the entry in
odbcinst.ini
, and the 'Servername' is the name of the entry in freetds.conf
(not a network name). There are other key/value pairs that can be included, see here for details.Check that all is OK by running
isql MYMSSQL myuser mypassword
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You can enter SQL queries at this point if you like. Type
quit
to exit the interactive session.Connect with pyodbc
It should now be possible to connect to your SQL Server database using pyodbc, for example:
Connecting without defining a DSN
If you don't want to define a DSN in
odbc.ini
, you can reference the driver entry you added to odbcinst.ini
.E.g.:
Note: in this case you may need to specify all necessary TDS parameters in
pyodbc.connect
.Connecting without modifying odbcinst.ini
or odbc.ini
If you want to avoid modifying both
odbc.ini
and odbcinst.ini
, you can just specify the driver file location in the driver
param in pyodbc.connect
.E.g.: