yep. Wouldn't it be faster if you just try that out ?
On Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:12:56 AM UTC+2, Gregg Branquinho wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>
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