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Asked: 2026-06-17T04:00:37+00:00

If this has been asked, I apologize in advance, I couldn’t find the right

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If this has been asked, I apologize in advance, I couldn’t find the right answer, although I’ve found similar questions.

I’m trying to connect to a SQL Server 2008 DB by using it’s IP / Port using trusted connection.

One additional point of complexity is: The database is outside of the US and usually we log in via Citrix. After logging into citrix, it uses our windows credentials (not sure if that impacts the issue).

I have tried several different types of connection strings

Driver=SQL Server
Driver=SQL Native Client
Driver=SQL Server Native Client 10.0

I’ve also tried differen’t formats of including the port, as well as messing with the Network Library when using the IP route.

I was hoping someone could help me understand 2 things.

1) (Most importantly) How do I figure out how to properly connect without simple trial and error. I tried checking connectionstrings.com but that didn’t really help all that much. I haven’t been able to find anything online.

2) If someone can help me out with connection string.

Here’s an example of what I’m doing:

cn = pyodbc.connect(r'DRIVER={SQL Native Client};Server=1.1.3.4,1234;Network    Library=DBMSSOCN;Initial Catalog=Test;UID=DOM\me;Pwd=pass')

Any help/guidance is much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You don’t need to specify a user or password if you want to use a trusted connection, instead use the paramater Trusted_Connection=yes. See here for the documentation.

    Something like this has worked for me in the past:

    cn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL Native Client};
                     Server=1.1.3.4; DATABASE=mydb; 
                     Trusted_Connection=yes;')
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