[Zope] Oracle access from Zope

Ian Willis Ian.Willis@kfpw.com.au
Mon, 08 Nov 1999 11:40:30 +1100


Is the source code for the NT ODBC Driver available. I would like to
know how much work it would take to use Unix port to use openlink or the
freely available ODBC drivers.
Arpad Kiss wrote:
> 
> You can download the ZOracleDA product from zope.org.
> I don't know if array-argumented PL/SQl procedures are suported or not.
> I've
> never tried it.
> There is an ODBC Zope product, but I am not familiar with it.
> >From Python you can access Oracle through ODBC, RDO etc. too. These can be
> used in external methods, or the COM objects may be accessible through the
> COM Zope product.
> Arpad Kiss
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Németh Miklós <nemeth@iqsoft.hu>
> To: zope <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 11:40 AM
> Subject: [Zope] Oracle access from Zope
> 
> > I am evaluating Zope, and I would like to know if there is a Zope
> > database driver for Oracle?
> > Is there a documentation about the services of this driver?
> > Recently, I have been evaluating several Oracle database access
> > interface modules for Perl, Tcl, Python, and found an interesting thing:
> >
> > none of these modules support calling PL/SQL procedures having array
> > arguments (I do not speak of records or array of records because even
> > OCI does not support record arguments). What about the Zope - Oracle
> > module?
> > It is very important in our case, because in our application
> > array-argumented PL/SQL procedures are heavily used for efficiency
> > reasons (they are really quite fast).
> >
> > Miklos Nemeth
> > IQSOFT
> >
> 
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