community.general.odbc module – Execute SQL via ODBC

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.8).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.odbc.

New in community.general 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Read/Write info via ODBC drivers.

Aliases: database.misc.odbc

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • pyodbc

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

commit

boolean

added in community.general 1.3.0

Perform a commit after the execution of the SQL query.

Some databases allow a commit after a select whereas others raise an exception.

Default is true to support legacy module behavior.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

dsn

string / required

The connection string passed into ODBC.

params

list / elements=string

Parameters to pass to the SQL query.

query

string / required

The SQL query to perform.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • Like the command module, this module always returns changed = yes whether or not the query would change the database.

  • To alter this behavior you can use changed_when: [yes or no].

  • For details about return values (description and row_count) see https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/wiki/Cursor.

Examples

- name: Set some values in the test db
  community.general.odbc:
    dsn: "DRIVER={ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server};Server=db.ansible.com;Database=my_db;UID=admin;PWD=password;"
    query: "Select * from table_a where column1 = ?"
    params:
      - "value1"
    commit: false
  changed_when: false

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

description

list / elements=dictionary

List of dicts about the columns selected from the cursors, likely empty for DDL statements. See notes.

Returned: success

results

list / elements=list

List of lists of strings containing selected rows, likely empty for DDL statements.

Returned: success

row_count

string

The number of rows selected or modified according to the cursor defaults to -1. See notes.

Returned: success

Authors

  • John Westcott IV (@john-westcott-iv)