On Tuesday 27 October 2009 02:40, Elder Dan Lewis wrote: > Nino Novak wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2009 15:35, Elder Dan Lewis wrote: > > How big is the database in this tutorial?
very small (it's an appointment scheduler) > Perhaps it might be a > great help if it is large enough. Does it require the use of SQL in > creating some of its queries? The goals of the document are primarily to learn and understand the principles and usage of a data base "by doing" (what are tables/forms/queries...? How do I create and use them efficiently?) SQL use is not described as the document is a starter and concentrates on the basics of OOo Base. > One of the things that has bothered me is that many of the > guides for OOo are written in English and then translated into the > other languages. I personally believe that there are many people > using a variety of languages which could be writing parts of these > guides, and these could then be translated into the other languages > including English. Unless someone knows what the original English > document from which it was translated, it would be nice if one of > your team members would translate it into English to be placed in the > tutorial section of the English Documentation. Just a thought. We are not a real "team", we are a volunteer community ;-) > What I want to do in the Base Guide is to describe the process > of going from a general idea of the data someone has and what he > wants to do with the data to the finished database. Zoltan from > Hungury has suggested a business application database, and I really > like this idea. I want it to be a fairly large and complex database > to demonstrate how to create such a database using Base. Well: try it :-) My personal opinion is that for beginners you should start as simple as possible. The mentioned tutorial uses a very simple data structure. You can add complexity later, when the basics are understood. > Unless the > document to which you referred does this, I know of no documentation > on Base which does this. > > Dies ist meine zwei pfennig. :-) > > Your comments are not discouraging to me at all. I don't want to > "reinvent the wheel", but I do want to redesign it so that it will do > more things. And I too would like to see an English translation of > the document you mentioned. It may well serve a very useful purpose > as a starting point for what I would like the Base Guide to become. That's what I was thinking when I saw your outline discussions ;-) Nino
