Merry Christmas
import pymssql
conn = pymssql.connect(host='SQL01', user='user', password='password', database='mydatabase')
cur = conn.cursor()

cur.execute('SELECT * FROM persons WHERE salesrep=%s', 'John Doe')
row = cur.fetchone()
while row:
    print "ID=%d, Name=%s" % (row[0], row[1])
    row = cur.fetchone()

# if you call execute() with one argument, you can use % sign as usual
# (it loses its special meaning).

cur.execute("SELECT * FROM persons WHERE salesrep LIKE 'J%'")

conn.close()

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