From mal@lemburg.com Thu Nov 12 10:10:34 1998 From: mal@lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:10:34 +0100 Subject: [DB-SIG] Definition of Timestamps ?! Message-ID: <364AB41A.753A1425@lemburg.com> Does anyone know why the ODBC definition of the fraction part in timestamps is nanoseconds, while the SQL standard seems to use microseconds ? I don't know if it's a bug in the ODBC driver of my database (ADABAS), but it stores timestamps using nanoseconds by rescaling them to microseconds and then retrieves them without doing the opposite conversion. When I pass in microseconds everything works fine... MySQL doesn't store the fraction part of timestamps at all it seems. What about other DBs and the Windows ODBC manager ? Thanks for any tips. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 414 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------- : Python Pages >>> http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/ : --------------------------------------------------------- From Max.Slimmer@rightworks.com Thu Nov 12 19:33:02 1998 From: Max.Slimmer@rightworks.com (Max Slimmer) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:33:02 -0800 Subject: [DB-SIG] oracledb on NT Message-ID: <19981112194027755.AAA298.90@elrond> Has anyone built the make files etc. for Win32? max From arw@ifu.net Thu Nov 12 22:00:52 1998 From: arw@ifu.net (Aaron Watters) Date: 12 Nov 1998 22:00:52 -0000 Subject: [DB-SIG] various gripes ;) ctsybase, mxodbc, gadfly, etc not listed on sig page Message-ID: <19981112220052.26665.qmail@findmail.com> Whilst steering a former-sort-of client away from the "sybasemodule" still archived at python.org (I think) and trying to locate the Peter G's excellent ctsybase module I noted that ctsybase and mxodbc and gadfly are not listed as db-api supporting db implementations/interfaces. Am I forgetting others? Please list them under http://www.python.org/sigs/db-sig/status.html And make this page easier to find, while yer at it. Links: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/pgodman/ http://www.chordate.com/gadfly http://starship.skyport.net/crew/lemburg/mxODBC.html [note: Peter G. You should make a sub-page for ctsybase.] Also I note that I seem to have been deleted from this (and other) lists, and I don't remember deleting myself. I recommend www.egroups.com (still buggy, but cool, and implemented in part in Python, I hear) as a pretty cool way to get list summaries with web access, to all who might be interested. If I'm still on this list, but but undeleted in some netherregion. Please delete me, since I'll use the egroups summary feature henceforth. Thanks, -- Aaron Watters From arw@ifu.net Fri Nov 13 02:05:33 1998 From: arw@ifu.net (Aaron Watters) Date: 13 Nov 1998 02:05:33 -0000 Subject: [DB-SIG] various gripes ;) ctsybase, mxodbc, gadf In-Reply-To: <19981112220052.26665.qmail@findmail.com> Message-ID: <19981113020533.7822.qmail@findmail.com> ah criminy! > http://starship.skyport.net/crew/pgodman/ > http://www.chordate.com/gadfly > http://starship.skyport.net/crew/lemburg/mxODBC.html the one in the middle is wrong! (the only one I did from memory :) ) http://www.chordate.com/gadfly.html just checked! It works. -- Aaron Watters ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/db-sig/?start=555 From arw@ifu.net Fri Nov 13 02:06:03 1998 From: arw@ifu.net (Aaron Watters) Date: 13 Nov 1998 02:06:03 -0000 Subject: [DB-SIG] various gripes ;) ctsybase, mxodbc, gadf In-Reply-To: <19981112220052.26665.qmail@findmail.com> Message-ID: <19981113020603.7861.qmail@findmail.com> ah criminy! > http://starship.skyport.net/crew/pgodman/ > http://www.chordate.com/gadfly > http://starship.skyport.net/crew/lemburg/mxODBC.html the one in the middle is wrong! (the only one I did from memory :) ) http://www.chordate.com/gadfly.html just checked! It works. -- Aaron Watters ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/db-sig/?start=555 From mal@lemburg.com Sun Nov 8 21:49:13 1998 From: mal@lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 22:49:13 +0100 Subject: [DB-SIG] ANN: mxODBC Package - Version 0.9.0 Message-ID: <364611D9.697599BE@lemburg.com> ANNOUNCING: mxODBC Version 0.9.0 A Python Extension Package providing a generic Interface to ODBC 2.0 API compliant Database Drivers or Managers WHAT IT IS: mxODBC is an extension package that provides a Python Database API compliant interface to ODBC 2.0 capable database drivers and managers. In addition to the capabilities provided through the standard API it also provides a rich set of catalog methods that allow you to scan the database for tables, procedures, etc. Furthermore, it uses the mxDateTime package for date/time value interfacing eliminating most of the problems these types normally introduce. WHAT'S NEW ? The 0.9.0 release fixes a few minor bugs and introduces a new API for querying the capabilities of the underlying connected database. Since this would have introduced hundreds of new symbols in the package directories, the access to SQL defines was moved into a seperate class. Apart from that, the module now offers a detailed debugging facility which can be used to trace the Python-database interaction. There are several new subpackages. mxODBC is known to work with Adabas, MySQL, iODBC Unix ODBC Manager, Solid, Oracle/NT and the Windows ODBC Manager. A precompiled version for use on WinXX is included in the package. WHERE CAN I GET IT ? The full documentation, copyright information and instructions for downloading and installing can be found at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC.html The mxDateTime package needed for mxODBC can be found at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxDateTime.html WHAT DOES IT COST ? mxODBC comes with a slightly modified Python-style license: Usage is free for non-commercial and commercial use. Redistribution of the package in commercial products requires a separate license and will only be free if the product itself is free. REFERENCE:

Message-ID: <365DE4D8.6E7057A9@lemburg.com> A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > [Followups set to the DB SIG. If you follow-up to this, please CC: me > at ; I won't be at work again until Monday.] > > I've put a draft version of a database topic guide at: > http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/database/ > > The guide covers the available Python interfaces for relational > databases, and there's also a page for other non-relational things > like pickle and BoboPOS and Metakit. > > Much of the DB-API material is copied from the current DB-SIG pages, > which I suspect are somewhat out of date. So, please let me know if > some URLs are out of date, or if your favorite database interface > isn't listed, or if some are obsolete, please let me know. > > I'm also not sure where to put Gadfly; it should definitely be > included somewhere, but where? Under 'Database Modules' and 'Databases in Python' I guess. > Suggestions for general database resources would also be helpful. For > example, if there's a really good SQL manual on the Web, or online > manuals for various database products, I'd like to add them. > ("One-stop shopping" is my goal for the Topic Guide, within reason.) You may also want to add the URL for the DB-API 1.1 pre-proposal: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/DatabaseAPI-1.1.html I will continue work on that as soon as find some time (and test drive it using mxODBC). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 400 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------- : Python Pages >>> http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/ : --------------------------------------------------------- From sevensterr@scmb.co.za Fri Nov 27 06:53:50 1998 From: sevensterr@scmb.co.za (Sevenster, Renier R) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:53:50 +0200 Subject: [DB-SIG] Draft of Database topic guide Message-ID: You can find the full documentation set for Oracle at technet.oracle.com. Registration on this site is free and it also has a lot of other technical information. All the documentation for Sybase is located on sybooks.sybase.com/dynaweb. What is the status on the free Oracle module? Regards Renier Sevenster Treasury Information Technology Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank Tel: +27 11 636 0566 Fax: +27 11 636 0918 -----Original Message----- From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal@lemburg.com] Sent: Friday, November 27, 1998 1:32 AM To: amk1@erols.com Cc: db-sig@python.org; python-list@cwi.nl Subject: Re: [DB-SIG] Draft of Database topic guide A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > [Followups set to the DB SIG. If you follow-up to this, please CC: me > at ; I won't be at work again until Monday.] > > I've put a draft version of a database topic guide at: > http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/database/ > > The guide covers the available Python interfaces for relational > databases, and there's also a page for other non-relational things > like pickle and BoboPOS and Metakit. > > Much of the DB-API material is copied from the current DB-SIG pages, > which I suspect are somewhat out of date. So, please let me know if > some URLs are out of date, or if your favorite database interface > isn't listed, or if some are obsolete, please let me know. > > I'm also not sure where to put Gadfly; it should definitely be > included somewhere, but where? Under 'Database Modules' and 'Databases in Python' I guess. > Suggestions for general database resources would also be helpful. For > example, if there's a really good SQL manual on the Web, or online > manuals for various database products, I'd like to add them. > ("One-stop shopping" is my goal for the Topic Guide, within reason.) You may also want to add the URL for the DB-API 1.1 pre-proposal: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/DatabaseAPI-1.1.html I will continue work on that as soon as find some time (and test drive it using mxODBC). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 400 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------- : Python Pages >>> http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/ : --------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig From mal@lemburg.com Fri Nov 27 09:55:11 1998 From: mal@lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:55:11 +0100 Subject: [DB-SIG] Draft of Database topic guide References: <199811261745.MAA01165@207-172-90-9.s263.tnt12.ann.erols.com> <365DE4D8.6E7057A9@lemburg.com> Message-ID: <365E76FF.3E5FA7A7@lemburg.com> Here are some more documentation pointers you might want to include: ODBC 2.0 Reference: http://www.solidtech.com/support/pg/httoc.htm (it is also downloadable for offline reading) A nice compendium of SQL functions and operators: http://www.corvu.com.au/dbfuncs/ A list of ODBC driver sources: http://www.corvu.com.au/odbclink.html A status report for the different modules would also be a nice idea (I remember someone having started such a list a few months ago). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 399 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------- : Python Pages >>> http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/ : --------------------------------------------------------- From olli@rhein-zeitung.de Fri Nov 27 10:38:03 1998 From: olli@rhein-zeitung.de (Oliver Andrich) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:38:03 +0100 Subject: [DB-SIG] Draft of Database topic guide In-Reply-To: <199811261745.MAA01165@207-172-90-9.s263.tnt12.ann.erols.com>; from A.M. Kuchling on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 12:45:18PM -0500 References: <199811261745.MAA01165@207-172-90-9.s263.tnt12.ann.erols.com> Message-ID: <19981127113803.G28793@rhein-zeitung.de> Hi, I would suggest to remove the link to my MySQL from the page cause this module isn't finished, broken with most recent versions of MySQL and so on. I like to suggest to add a link to the module of Joerg Senekowitsch (senekow@ibm.net). You have to ask him for the correct URL, where you can download it. I always receive it by mail, cause I maintain it as RPM package in my Python distribution. And I would move it to the DB-API compliant modules page, cause a wrapper that emulates the DB-API on top of the lowlevel API interface is part of it. Bye, Oliver -- Oliver Andrich, RZ-Online, Schlossstrasse Str. 42, D-56068 Koblenz Telefon: 0261-3921027 / Fax: 0261-3921033 / Web: http://rhein-zeitung.de Private Homepage: http://andrich.net/ / ICQ: 16767038