mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.4 released

eGenix.com is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new version 1.0.4 of our professional quality mxODBC Zope DA (Database Adapter) for ODBC based on our mxODBC product.

Introduction

The mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix.com product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture.

Unlike Zope's ZODBC Zope DA, the mxODBC Zope DA works on Windows XP/NT/2000/98/95, Linux and Solaris using the same interface on all platforms.

The mxODBC Zope DA implements thread-safe connection pooling and multiple physical connects per logical Zope connection. You can safely run Z SQL Methods in parallel, achieving a much better performance than ZODBC Zope DA or similar Zope database adapters under heavy load. This makes it ideal for deployment in Zope Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority.

New in this Release

The new version provides better support and work-arounds to make the Zope DA more compatible to existing ODBC drivers.

A highlight is the possibility to make use of the FreeTDS ODBC driver via unixODBC to connect from a Linux Zope server to a MS SQL Server -- something which many users have requested. Even though the FreeTDS driver 0.61 is still somewhat rough around the edges, we have added helpers and work-arounds to the mxODBC Zope DA to make simple queries and even transactions possible and reliable.

More Information and Download

For more information please visit our website at http://www.egenix.com/
or follow this link to the mxODBC Zope DA product page on zope.org.