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Connecting to SQL-Server with Windows Auth from Elixir

The goto method to connect to databases in Elixir are the Ecto adapters. Connecting to the SQL-server is done using the TDS adapter. Unfortunately, TDS does not support windows authetication.

The way to overcome this limitation is to use the erlang ODBC library.

def get_data do
    {:ok, ref} = :odbc.connect …