Installing pymsssql on Vista/Windows 7 and python 2.6

2009-07-17 16:43:00
Patrick Fitzsimmons at 2009-07-17 16:43:00

Today I was trying to install pymssql using the automated installer.  When I ran python and imported pymssql I received an error: "ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found."

Turns out that I needed a newer version of ntwdblib.dll   The folks at UserScape had made this DLL available here.  I downloaded it into my python26/Lib/site-packages folder, overwrote the existing ntwdblib.dll, and then it worked.

Googling around for the answer was not easy, so I'm posting this in case other searchers run into this problem. 

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