#!/usr/bin/env python import pymssql conn = pymssql.connect( host="host", db="database", user="username", passwd="l0lz" ) cursor = conn.cursor() # select first name, last name from all presidents row_count = cursor.execute(''' select lname, fname from presidents ''') print("{} rows in result set\n".format(row_count)) for row in cursor.fetchall(): print(' '.join(row)) print() # cursor.fetchone() and cursor.fetchmany() are also available