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ANNOUNCING
eGenix.com mxODBC
Python ODBC Database Interface
Version 3.3.0
mxODBC is our commercially supported Python extension providing
ODBC database connectivity to Python applications
on Windows, Mac OS X, Unix and BSD platforms
This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-3.3.0-GA.html
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INTRODUCTION
mxODBC provides an easy-to-use, high-performance, reliable and robust
Python interface to ODBC compatible databases such as MS SQL Server,
MS Access, Oracle Database, IBM DB2 and Informix , Sybase ASE and
Sybase Anywhere, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP MaxDB and many more:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/
The "eGenix mxODBC - Python ODBC Database Interface" product is a
commercial extension to our open-source eGenix mx Base Distribution:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/
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NEWS
The 3.3.0 release of our mxODBC is a new release of our popular Python
ODBC Interface for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
New Features in 3.3
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Stored Procedures
* mxODBC now has full support for input, output and input/output
parameters in stored procedures and stored functions, allowing easy
integration with existing databases systems.
User Customizable Row Objects
* Added support for user customizable row objects by adding
cursor/connection .rowfactory and .row constructor attributes. When
set, these are used to wrap the normal row tuples returned by the
.fetch*() methods into dynamically created row objects.
* Added new RowFactory classes to support cursor.rowfactory and
cursor.row. These allow dynamically creating row classes that
provide sequence as well as mapping and attribute access to row
fields - similar to what namedtuples implement, but specific to
result sets.
Fast Cursor Types
* Switched to forward-only cursor types for all database backends,
since this provides a much better performance for MS SQL Server and
IBM DB2 drivers.
* Added a new .cursortype attribute to allow adjusting and inspecting
the ODBC cursor type to be used for an mxODBC cursor
object. Default is to use forward-only cursors, but mxODBC also
support several other useful cursor types such as static cursors
with full support for result set scrolling.
More new Features
* Custom errorhandlers are now also called very early during the
connection process. This makes it possible to debug e.g. ODBC
driver/manager setup problems from within Python, without having to
resort to ODBC trace files.
* Enhanced cursor.prepare() to allow querying cursor.description
right after the prepare step and not only after calling a
cursor.execute*() method.
* Added iterator/generator support to .executemany(). The parameters
list can now be an iterator/generator, if needed.
* Added new connection.dbapi property to easily access module level
symbols from the connection object.
* Timestamp seconds fraction resolution is now determined from the
scale of a datetime/timestamp SQL column, using the
connection.timestampresolution as lower bound, when using SQL type
binding. In Python type binding, the connection.timestampresolution
determines the scale with which a variable is bound. This allows
for greater flexibility when dealing with database backends that
don't provide full nano-second second resolution, such as e.g. MS
SQL Server.
* mxODBC now accepts Unicode string values for
date/time/datetime/timestamp column types in SQL type binding
mode. Previous versions already did in Python type binding mode.
* mxODBC now uses unicode(obj, encoding) semantics when binding
Python objects to SQLWCHAR database parameters. Additionally, it
ignores the encoding in case obj is a number, to avoid conversion
errors.
* Added new cursor.encoding and (read-only) cursor.converter
attributes. Both inherit their default values from the connection
the cursor was created on.
* Added cursor.bindmethod which inherits from connection.bindmethod
when creating the cursor. This allows adjusting the variable bind
method on a per-cursor basis, rather than only on a per connection
basis as in previous mxODBC versions.
* mxODBC is now built against unixODBC 2.3.2.
* The SQL lookup object now supports ODBC 3.8 symbols and values,
including driver specific symbols used by the MS SQL Server Native
Client and IBM DB2 ODBC drivers.
* Updated the DataDirect binding to version 7.1.2 of the DataDirect
ODBC manager.
For the full set of features mxODBC has to offer, please see:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/#Features
Driver Compatibility Enhancements
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Oracle
* Added work-around for Oracle Instant Client to be able to use
integer output parameters.
* Added a work-around for Oracle Instant Client to have it return
output parameters based on the input placeholder Python parameter
types. It would otherwise return all parameters as strings.
* Disabled a test for Oracle Instant Client which tries to set a
pre-connect connection option for timeouts, since the ODBC driver
segfaults with this option.
MS SQL Server
* mxODBC now defaults to 100ns connection.timestampresolution for MS
SQL Server 2008 and later, and 1ms resolution for MS SQL server
2005 and earlier. This simplifies interfacing to SQL Server
timestamp columns by preventing occasional precision errors.
* Tested mxODBC successfully with new MS SQL Server Native Client 11
for Linux. Unicode connection strings still don't work, but
everything else does.
* Added documentation on how to use Kerberos with mxODBC and SQL
Server fo authentication on both Windows and Linux.
* Added note about problems of the FreeTDS ODBC driver dealing with
TIME and DATE columns to the documentation.
Sybase ASE
* Added work-around for the Sybase ASE ODBC driver, which doesn't
always pass back NULL correctly to mxODBC on 64-bit Unix systems.
* Changed the variable type binding mode default for the Sybase ASE
ODBC driver from Python type binding to SQL type binding, which
resolves issues with e.g. the Unicode support for that driver.
* Added note about a segfault problem with the Sybase ASE 15.7 ODBC
driver which is caused by the driver corrupting the heap.
IBM DB2
* Added work-around for the IBM DB2 ODBC driver, which doesn't always
pass back NULL correctly to mxODBC on 64-bit Unix systems.
PostgreSQL
* Added work-around to force Python type binding for the PostgreSQL
ODBC drivers. More recent versions of the driver report supporting
SQL type binding, but they don't implement it.
* Added work-around to have PostgreSQL ODBC drivers properly work
with binary data for BYTEA columns.
MySQL
* mxODBC now supports native Unicode with the recent MySQL ODBC
drivers - provided you use the Unicode variants of the drivers.
* Changed the default binding mode for MySQL ODBC drivers to Python
type binding. This works around a problem with date/time values
when talking to MySQL 5.6 servers.
For the full set of changes please check the mxODBC change log:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/changelog.html
The Future
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* Please note that this will be the last release of mxODBC for Python
2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. For the next release of mxODBC, we are focusing
on making the code Python 2.7 and Python 3.x compatible, dropping
support for earlier Python versions.
* If you need long term support for these older Python versions,
please contact sa...@egenix.com. We can then arrange custom support
contracts for you.
mxODBC Editions
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mxODBC is available in these two editions:
* The Professional Edition, which gives full access to all mxODBC
features.
* The Product Development Edition, which allows including mxODBC in
applications you develop.
For a complete overview of the new editions, please see the product page.
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/#mxODBCEditions
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DOWNLOADS
The download archives and instructions for installing the package can
be found at:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/
In order to use the eGenix mxODBC package you will first need to
install the eGenix mx Base package:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/
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UPGRADING
Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC release to
benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver support.
We have taken special care, not to introduce backwards incompatible
changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible.
For upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount coupons going
from mxODBC 2.x to 3.3 and 50% coupons for upgrades from mxODBC 3.x to
3.3. After upgrade, use of the original license from which you
upgraded is no longer permitted.
Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team at sa...@egenix.com with your
existing license serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon.
If you want to try the new release before purchace, you can request
30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/#Evaluation
or by writing to sa...@egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of
the company) and the number of eval licenses that you need.
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SUPPORT
Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com.
Please see
http://www.egenix.com/services/support/
for details about our support offerings.
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INFORMATION
About Python (http://www.python.org/):
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clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid
application design, Python establishes an ideal programming
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