On 20/03/02, 11:23:10, Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> wrote regarding Re: [Zope] Where is Oracle ZODB storage ? Large file support in NT 4 ?:

But BerkeleyStorage and DCOracle storage dont store textual data in the database. Like all ZODB storages they store *pickled* *objects*

If you want to store text in your SQL database then you need a database adapter, not a storage.

I can see that. Which also means rewriting any existing Zope applications to use the RDBMS.

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The applications I intend to develop with Zope have to work in an environment where most programming is done in VB (ugh) and data stored in MSSQL Server. If I wanted to use a Zwiki, I would want the text stored in the MSQL datastore.

Can they make http requests to zope? xmlrpc or soap requests?

One datastore is the aim. Applications which insist on being all-or-nothing and can't work with external datastores are not useful to us. If Zope falls in to that camp then I will reluctantly move on. -- Bruce