[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Relational Database Connectivity

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      The items in the sequence of results returned by a Z SQL Method
      are called *Result objects*.  Result objects can be thought of
      as rows from the database table turned into Zope objects.  These
      objects have attributes that match the schema of the database
      results. 

        % Anonymous User - Aug. 14, 2002 1:24 pm:
         A useful tip is that you can access the column headings of your database table by calling <results
         object>.names()

        % Anonymous User - Sep. 28, 2002 6:10 am:
         what a zsql method really returns (the Result object) is a mystery;
         for use in python read
         http://www.zope.org/Members/spinwing/ZSQL_Results
         for dtml, zsql method automatically returns this dictionary,
         which is a pythonized table, 
         namely a list of dictionarys, one for each row, 
         each row dictionary w columnnames as keys like {colname1:val1, colname2:val2,...}

        % Anonymous User - Sep. 28, 2002 6:19 am:
         /The items in the sequence of results returned by a Z SQL Method are called Result objects/
         No. 
         A ZSQL Method returns a *Result object*, which has methods names(), data_dictionary() and dictionaries(), the
         last having above described structure.
          blf

        % Anonymous User - Nov. 15, 2002 11:03 pm:
         Another piece of information missing is that if you have a filed in your database (I used mysql) of type
         datetime then the returned object for this particular filed is of type DateTime and not a string.