Chris Withers wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>> This is a no-go if your Oracle people go "huh? ODBC? that's deprecated >>> rubbish and you ain't using it" ;-) >> >> >> Depends on what people you're talking to, I guess... > > > Oracle DBA's who know a helluva lot more than me about Oracle ;-) > > Why are they saying ODBC is deprecated? Is it? Is ADO the way to go > here? (as you can tell, I'm fairly clueless when it comes to MS ways > into Oracle ;-) )
Not sure why they think that ODBC is deprecated - Oracle is happily working on their ODBC driver and it's one of the best bets you can find out there: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/windows/odbc/index.html The only thing that's deprecated in the context of ODBC and Oracle is the MS Oracle driver - at least that's how things currently look (you never know with MS vs. Oracle, e.g. they just published a new .NET provider ): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q244661/ Note that ADO is just a layer on top of OLE DB and/or ODBC and makes programming a bit easier for C++ apps and the like. It doesn't really buy you anything when used from Python - just adds one more layer to worry about :-) See the MS MDAC roadmap for more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/mdac/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmdac/html/data_mdacroadmap.asp It is interesting to see things like e.g. DAO which was en vogue a few years ago being listed as obsolete data access technology. >> BTW, would calling it mxOracle Zope DA help ? (just >> testing waters here ;-) > > Sadly, not in the slightest. For me, only normal oracle listeners will > ever be available :-( Would a native Oracle interface help ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 19 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Zope-DB mailing list Zope-DB@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-db