if you want to use the dal to retrieve data from your databases you should connect to them.
dbmysql = DAL('mysql://...') dbmmsql = DAL('mssql://...') What is your issue ? On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:18:23 PM UTC+2, Gregg Branquinho wrote: > > I am building a json webservice in web2py and it is being used by many > different frontends.. > > What I am looking to do on the back end is connected to external databases > (1 postgre, 2 mssql) and return the correlated data from the different > servers to the json client. > > What I am struggling with is how to connect to any external database from > web2py and should I sue the DAL layer to coonect to all these different > servers ?? > > Any advice would be greatly apprieciated. > > > > Kind Regards > GRegg > --