Zope and NT databases

[Sarah Burke]

Well, how about if I was using a client/server database, like Microsoft's SQL
server?

Sarah

Jochen Knuth wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Bill Scherer wrote:
> >
> > You want ZODBCDA:
> >
> > http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/ZODBCDA
> >
> > Sarah Burke wrote:
> >
> > > Hello...
> > > I want to connnect up to a NT Access 97 Database through Zope running on
> > > Unix. Is the mxODBC module in an External Method the way to go?
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
>
> if i remember correctly ZODBCDA only works on Win32 platform.
>
> also Access 97 is not a client/server database, so you cant connect to
> it from unix directly to it.
>
> perhaps the ODBC Socket Server from http://odbc.linuxbox.com/index.html
> will work (haven't tried it).
>
> You have to write a python client for the ODBC Socket Server (if noone
> else has written it, don't know).
>
> Ciao,
> Jochen
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