I was abit annoyed with the way SQLAlchemy worked, altho a very good DA connector.
I did not like the cryptic bits in it much.+ the passwords were shown in cleartext in the setup.
At least when connecting to my Oracle 11g
So i made something that is perhaps easier for Zope (And Plone) to connect to most databases out there.
Its open source, under the MIT licence, so just play.
It requires only that you install the appropriate odbc driver from pypi + ZSQLMethods
Enjoy!
Fixader