A ZopeDA for Interbase..I really hope so... Id also be very interested. Ive been using Interbase for only a few weeks now, and I'm *very* impressed. It is way ahead (for my purposes, at least) of anything else available on Linux through any kind of open-source license. I think Interbase was the first RDBMS to support BLOBs (binary objects) and it is the first *open-source* database to reliably support referential integrity, triggers and stored procedures.. (like the well-known commercial offerings, which Interbase was until a few months ago.) It has a reputation for being *extremely* stable and it is a very mature and well-engineered product. (It used to be owned by DEC, from what I understand, before they were assimilated by Compaq.) It is currently owned by Corel/Inprise. (I am pretty sure) I'm a newbie to SQL (and Zope) but now that I am building my first full-sized SQL project, I can see that key features like foreign keys/referential integrity are very important in any kind of serious SQL work. I started this project thinking I would use MySQL, but I quickly realized that MySQL couldnt handle the foreign key construct I was assuming I could use.. I guess I could have added extra tables to my design to simulate foreign keys in MySQL, but when I heard about Interbase, I was overjoyed. After deciding on Interbase then I went looking for some middleware to connect my database to the Web, and guess where I ended up after a *lot* of research.. here... Like Interbase, Zope is perfect for what I have planned for my project. There has been a fair amount of discussion of Zope over on the Interbase list, and I and everyone else I have spoken to that knows anything about these things agrees, the two are natural partners. Chris Beaumont webmaster, MSRI www.msri.org Jason Cunliffe wrote:
On 4 May 2000, at 17:12, Tom Deprez wrote:
I'm using Kinterbasdb with SQLDict in an extension module and calling that from Zope.
I'd also like to see a true Zope DA for Interbase.. Not sure where's the best place to start to write one...
We are very interested also in using Interbase with Zope. ZopeDA for Interbase would be a GOOD thing.
Meanwhile, if you care to share some of your experiences writing and using your Extension Module,its code or how-to then that would be a great help in getting up to Interbase speed.
tia
- Jason
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