I'm connection to mssql server through pyodbc, via FreeTDS odbc driver, on linux ubuntu 10.04.

Sqlalchemy 0.5 uses DATETIME for sqlalchemy.Date() fields.

Now Sqlalchemy 0.6 uses DATE, but sql server 2000 doesn't have a DATE type. How can I make DATETIME be the default for sqlalchemy.Date() on sqlalchemy 0.6 mssql+pyodbc dialect?

I'd like to keep it as clean as possible.

Here's code to reproduce the issue:

import sqlalchemy
from sqlalchemy import Table, Column, MetaData, Date, Integer, create_engine

engine = create_engine(
    'mssql+pyodbc://sa:sa@myserver/mydb?driver=FreeTDS')

m = MetaData(bind=engine)

tb = sqlalchemy.Table('test_date', m, 
    Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True),
    Column('dt', Date())
)
tb.create()

And here is the traceback I'm getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/teste.py", line 15, in <module>
    tb.create()
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 428, in create
    bind.create(self, checkfirst=checkfirst)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1647, in create
    connection=connection, **kwargs)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1682, in _run_visitor
    **kwargs).traverse_single(element)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 77, in traverse_single
    return meth(obj, **kw)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/ddl.py", line 58, in visit_table
    self.connection.execute(schema.CreateTable(table))
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1157, in execute
    params)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1210, in _execute_ddl
    return self.__execute_context(context)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1268, in __execute_context
    context.parameters[0], context=context)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1367, in _cursor_execute
    context)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1360, in _cursor_execute
    context)
  File "/home/nosklo/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 277, in do_execute
    cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (ProgrammingError) 
('42000', '[42000] [FreeTDS][SQL Server]Column or parameter #2: 
Cannot find data type DATE. (2715) 
(SQLExecDirectW)') 
'\nCREATE TABLE test_date (\n\tid INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1), 
\n\tdt DATE NULL, \n\tPRIMARY KEY (id)\n)\n\n' ()