[Zope] ODBC with Zope on SPARC platform

[Paul Browning]

Just to report that XMLKit

<http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/XMLKit/news-1.1.1>

which has support for ODBC Socket Server worked for me
from a Linux box doing queries against Access on
an NT box.

This may offer you a way forward.

Paul

--On 02 January 2003 08:09 -0800 Rob Boyd <zopequest@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I need to have my Zope applications that are running
> on non-Windows to be able to connect to SQL Server
> databases. I've read through various documentation and
> have yet to arrive at an answer to my problem.  The
> mxODBC Zope DA won't work because I run Zope on
> Solaris on one box and Linux on SPARC on others (the
> mxODBC DA betas are for win32 or Linux i686).  I
> thought about using iODBC with the mxODBC extensions
> and writing my own Python methods to connect, but
> couldn't get mxODBC going on Solaris.  A while back I
> tried zorton's How-to on Zope.org about ZSQL Relay,
> but ran into problems with that, too (may try it
> again).  I can't believe I'm the only one needing to
> use ODBC for non-Linux/non-Windows... does anyone have
> any pointers on how to get this working?
>
> Thanks much,
> Rob
>
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