[Zope3-Users] Re: Zope3 with RDBMS (avoiding ZODB)?

[Robert Hicks]

David Johnson wrote:
>> Now, where should we start with it in Zope3 to connect it to an RDBMS?
> We do mostly SQL/RDBMS.  We have tried ZAlchmey, and SQLOs, but we find 
> them both a bit limiting and simultaneous complex to get them to work 
> they way we wanted.  In general when one develops and RDBMS application 
> of any size, the database structure can get very complex.  In order to 
> integrate them into Zope 3 just right, it's best to manually code the 
> containers and objects.  We have been able to simplify the process quite 
> a bit and we are very happy with it.  It's amazing scalable.    If you 
> do decide to go this way, I would be glad to share our RBDMS package and 
> procedures.  We've developed some guidelines to improve development.  We 
> use MySQL exclusively.
> 

Do I take this to mean you are just using SQL and not any "integrated" 
Z3 solution? I ask because I have Oracle databases at work and would 
like to try Z3 out with that. I have no problem doing my own SQL (I kind 
of prefer it).

Robert