is it as simple as adding new global dabase objects in the db.py ?
On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:18:37 UTC+2, Niphlod wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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
>>
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