[Zope] *not newbie* How do you interact with your RDMS?

[Andrew Williams]

All:

If this question is off topic, my apologies:

Like many other Zope developers out there, I utilize an RDMS to store 
frequently changing data, instead of the Zope DB.

My question is, how does everyone else interact with their RDMS's?  I'm sure 
that most people (including myself) use the de-facto DTML and SQL Methods 
for rendering/storing data.

Has anyone used pythonscripts, products, ZClasses, etc for RDMS interaction?

If so, what do you feel the advantage is?

Why did you make the decision not to use DTML/SQL Methods?

Did you realize a time savings and/or speed increase?

Greater flexibility?

Any other advantages/disadvantages of using your method?

I realize that it is difficult to make a generalization, so lets make the 
assumption that we are talking about reasonably large/complex frequently 
changing data structures being stored in the RDMS.

I ask this, so I can satisfy some curiosity, gauge what other Zope 
developers are doing, and to decide whether I should look at moving away 
from DTML and use python for a web site I am designing.


Thanks for any info...

Andrew Williams
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