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ANNOUNCEMENT
mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter
Version 2.1.1
for Zope and the Plone CMS
Available for Plone 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2,
Zope 2.12 and 2.13, on
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms
This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.1-GA.html
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INTRODUCTION
The eGenix mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope or
Plone CMS installation to just about any database backend on the
market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported
eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as
middle-tier architecture.
The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope
itself and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC data
sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows, Linux,
Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms.
This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting
environments where stability and high performance are a top priority,
establishing an excellent basis and scalable solution for your Plone
CMS.
Product page:
http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/
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NEWS
We are pleased to announce the new version 2.1.1 of our mxODBC
Zope/Plone Database Adapter product.
Feature Enhancements
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* Added a new connection property "ODBC cursor type" which allows
easily adjusting the ODBC cursor type to be used for mxODBC Zope DA
connection objects.
This new property allows enhancing the performance of the adapter
significantly, when using it with MS SQL Server or IBM DB2 database
backends. Please see below for details.
Driver Compatibility
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* MS SQL Server performance can now be much enhanced, and increased
to levels beyond that of previous mxODBC Zope DA releases, by
adjusting the connection ODBC cursor type to "Forward only
cursors".
The performance increase compared to mxODBC Zope DA 2.1.0 is
enormous: from 2-3x faster executes/fetches for average queries, up
to 300x faster for simple cases.
In mxODBC Zope DA 2.2, we will switch to using "Forward only
cursors" per default for all database backends.
* IBM DB2 can benefit from the same performance enhancements using
"Forward only cursors".
The effect is a lot smaller, but still noticeable: up to 2x faster
executes/fetches with forward-only cursors, compared to mxODBC Zope
DA 2.1.0.
* Added documentation to explain the different cursor types,
compatibility with different database backends and effects on
performance.
Fixes
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* Fixed the installation instructions to be more generic and easily
adaptable to Plone and Zope installations on both Windows and Unix
platforms.
For the full set of changes please check the change log:
http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/changelog.html
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FEATURES
Version 2.1.0 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product
was released on 2012-09-18. Please see the full
announcement for highlights of the 2.1 release:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.0-GA.html
For the full set of features mxODBC has to offer, please see:
http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Features
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UPGRADING
Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Zope/Plone DA
release to benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver
support.
We have taken special care not to introduce backwards incompatible
changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible.
As always, patch level upgrades (e.g. from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1) are free of
charge. The licenses you have purchased for 2.1 will continue to work
with this new release.
For major and minor upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount
coupons going from mxODBC Zope DA 1.x to 2.1 and 50% coupons for
upgrades from mxODBC 2.x to 2.1. After upgrade, use of the original
license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted.
Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team with your existing license
serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon.
If you want to try the new release before purchace, you can request
30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site or writing to
sales(a)egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and
the number of eval licenses that you need.
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SUPPORT
Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com.
Please see
http://www.egenix.com/services/support/
for details about our support offerings.
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MORE INFORMATION
For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing
and download instructions, please visit our web-site:
http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/
You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at:
http://shop.egenix.com/
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