[Zope3-dev] RDB support

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On 4/10/02 3:19 PM, "Jeff Kowalczyk" <jtk@adelphia.net> wrote:

>> [Brian Lloyd] I would further encourage anyone approaching
>> this to study the System.Data and ADO related libraries
>> in .NET.
> 
> Of particular interest IMO is the disconnected, multitable relational
> dataset in ADO.NET. Filling datasets' tables from various sources is
> handled through adapters, which can be implemented over collections of
> XML, SQL, and dare-I-hope... ZODB Pickles and Catalog Results.
> 
> With that, we'd have relational joining of multiple Catalog Query
> results (given a common key) implemented in a standardized way. ZOQL
> would get a big boost in capability out of it, and many projects could
> remain in the ZODB without going back to RDBs because of querying
> requirements.

Yippee!  And I'll keep my current comments at that.  :)

> The diminished demand for server-held resources by always-disconnected
> recordsets is well-suited to Zope/Python, I'd imagine. And updates would
> be inherently versionable at a related-record level.

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