import pyodbc try: connection = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server};SERVER=.;DATABASE=SampleDB;Trusted_Connection=yes') cursor = connection.cursor() print() print("Successfully connected to SQL Server") print() cursor.close() connection.close() except pyodbc.Error as ex: print() print("exception: ", ex) print("closing program") print() exit() print()