Python/Django - Connecting to a legacy SQL Server Databse getting error "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'sqlserver_ado'"

Question

So I'm connecting my Django app to a SQL server database using django-mssql and pywin32-218.win-amd64-py2.7

Everything works great if I'm starting from scratch by creating models and syncing the database.

However, I'd like to connect to an existing SQL Server DB. I followed these instructions

And ended up with the following model:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import models


class Payload(models.Model):
id = models.sqlserver_ado.fields.BigAutoField(db_column='Id') # Field name made lowercase.
code = models.CharField(db_column='Code', max_length=10) # Field name made lowercase.
body = models.TextField(db_column='Body') # Field name made lowercase.

class Meta:
    managed = False
    db_table = 'Payload'

If I try to run 'runserver' I get the following error:

File "C:\Users\luke\PycharmProjects\project\API\models.py", line 7, in Payload id = models.sqlserver_ado.fields.BigAutoField(db_column='Id') # Field name made lowercase. AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'sqlserver_ado'

However, If I comment out the line "id = models.sqlserver_ado.fields.BigAutoField(db_column='Id') # Field name made lowercase."

Everything fires up perfectly.

Any ideas?!

Answer 1

If you are having sqlserver_ado installed. Import BigAutoField like this:

from sqlserver_ado.fields import BigAutoField

Then replace id = models.sqlserver_ado.fields.BigAutoField(db_column='Id') # Field name made lowercase with

id = BigAutoField(db_column='Id') # Field name made lowercase.