[Zope3-dev] Re: RDB Stuff

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

Is there still time to look at ADO.net for some ideas on the RDB layer? I've
been thinking how effective it might be to use the DataSet (ADO.net's
relational, multi-table, in-memory disconnected resultset) as a unifying
structure for various RDB, Catalog, XML and Object Property results. It
would seem like a productive and common use-case to fill catalog queries of
related objects into tables of a DataSet, and have a mini-relational model
to process against, update or simply use as their index to the requested
objects. This would help people coming from an RDB background use the ODB
more effectively, not to mention the extent to which ADO.net will be in use
by the time Zope3 arrives, and the attraction of a familiar RDB data access
layer.

Some links if anyone is curious:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemdatadatasetclasstopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/
frlrfSystemData.asp

http://go-mono.org/class-status-System.Data.html (potential source code
resource)

http://www.oreillynet.com/topics/dotnet/ado.net