RE: [Modeling-users] Porting to SQL Server

[Dennis K. <djk...@ya...>]

I am but it may take me a week or so to get up to
speed on the framework, as I have not used it yet.  I
have postgres installed on cygwin which I can use to
get familiar with Modeling.  I'm sure this will help
when going through the source code as well.



--- "Driver, David" <DD...@co...> wrote:

> So Dennis, Are you interested in working on this? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien Bigaret
> [mailto:sbi...@us...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:15 PM
> To: Dennis Kertis; David Driver
> Cc: mod...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Modeling-users] Porting to SQL Server
> 
> 
> Dennis Kertis <djk...@ya...> wrote:
> > I am interested in using the Modeling framework
> for
> > SQL Server and was wondering what is involved with
> > designing support for SQL Server?  Any way someone
> > could give me a rough estimate of the time it
> would
> > take?  I'd like to know what I am getting myself
> into.
> 
> The time needed for the development of a new adaptor
> layer can be
> roughly counted in days; it essentially depends on
> how far the database
> server stands from SQL standards, obviously on how
> good you know the
> server and its python adaptors, and how familiar one
> is with the MDL
> framework.
> 
>   I cannot help w/ SQL Server, and I won't be able
> to have a SQL Server
>   here (unless iot cabn be deployed on Linux ;)
> --but I can help during
>   the development of a new adaptor, esp. regarding
> integration into the
>   framework and the test-units.
> 
> You can have a look at the existing adaptor layers
> to get an idea of
> what needs to be done, and ask for more here.
> 
>   Some questions that needs to be answered before
> starting:
> 
>     - how to make SQL JOINs
>     - does SQL Server support sequences? (for PK
> generation)
> 
>     - check whether the types declared in
> SQLExpression's
>       valueTypeForExternalTypeMapping() are
> supported, and whether some
>       should be added
> 
> In any ways I'll be happy to collaborate w/ you and
> David to make this
> happen.
> 
> -- Sébastien.
> 
> P.-S.: Oh, BTW, if we go for adding this into the
> framework it would be
>   important that it can be tested on a regular
> basis, esp. before a
>   release is made; would someone maybe consider to
> offer an access to a
>   sample db-server, or take the responsability for
> these tests?
> 
> 



	
		
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