It does look like there is a pure python implementation of TDS called 
pytds, which may actually work... the hard part would be getting web2py to 
use it...

On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 5:15:57 PM UTC-7, Derek wrote:
>
> Yea, I'm working on a communication layer for pyodbc or pypyodbc which 
> will handle requests with gevent, thus your application should yield 
> properly, but it's not available just yet, and it won't necessarily be a 
> drop-in replacement for pyodbc though. In the meantime, this is usually 
> good enough, and you can set timeouts for the queries and connects, but 
> that would be a change to the DAL.
>
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:50:33 PM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, November 7, 2013 12:23:06 AM UTC+1, Derek wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, if you are on Windows, I would recommend you run it with gevent 
>>> instead of rocket, it should be faster than even apache.
>>>
>>> unfortunately it doesn't work as happily as it should: if you're using 
>> any non-green module (he's working with mssql, hence either pyodbc or 
>> pypyodbc, that are not), those libraries don't "yield", so you block all 
>> other greenlets in the meantime.
>> Without an upstream proxy balancing to multiple gevented web2py(s) if you 
>> have a "blocking" query to the database you queue up basically all other 
>> connections. I guess that  without an apache ProxyBalancer (or a much 
>> yummier gunicorn, as it stands due in two 
>> months<https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/524>) 
>> those web2py windows apps with non-green modules will run more 
>> "concurrently-friendly" with any "old" threaded webserver.
>>
>>

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