[Zope] MS Access interfacing

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Bruce,

we are using Merants Sequelink[tm] middleware to get a foot on
the ODBC database on the windows side and have ZmxODBC on Zope/Linux.
This works pretty well but the Sequelink middleware costs substantial
money.
The solution for you might be a small zope with ZmxODBC on the windows
machine to access the ODBC database there and take zclient to fetch
results to the Zope on Linux. (There is little documentation on
XML-RPC you could use)

Regards
Tino

--On Freitag, 20. Juli 2001 09:55 +0000 Bruce <bkd69@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm managing a site with lots of different info. It's Linux+Apache,
> with a brand spankin' new Zope install.
>
> I'd like to add more info and features to the site, most of it
> dynamic, and just about all of it somebody else's responsibility to
> maintain.
>
> My best success so far has been with Excel spreadsheets. In this
> case, the page maintainer stores it on an NT server, and I run a cgi
> script that ftp's a copy over, and then it gets displayed via
> xl2html. This has the advantage of making a local copy for a backup,
> in case something untoward should happen, and the it's completely
> transparent to the person responsible for maintaining the page. As
> far as he's concerned, it just magically gets updated on the website.
>
> This works, primarily because the spreadsheets are pretty much under
> 50kb.
>
> Now I'm faced with searching a 20Mb Access database and displaying
> selected records from it.
>
> Downloading a new copy with every access at 20Mb is prohibitive, and
> it's not updated so often as to be important. I can manually stash it
> wherever necessary as needed.
>
> The first question is where to stash it. I want to avoid installing
> new software or services on the various machines, though I certainly
> could, within reason and limitiation. Ideally, I want to just stash
> it on the Linux server, and have Zope take care of the interface and
> display. But looking at the Jet ODBC connectors, it appears that they
> really want to live in Windows.
>
> Which is all well and good. The database maintainer is using a
> Windows machine, and I have our local NT server, either will do, but
> I'd rather not install Python on either of them if I didn't have to,
> though I can if needs must.
>
> Which also brings me the question, how does my Linux Zope
> installation talk to the Windows server hosting the database? By way
> of the connector?
>
> I hope this all isn't too basic...
>
> Thanks
> Bruce
>
>
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