Bruce Martin wrote:
Dear Steve:
Any Oo file can be saved with a password.
Except for databases.
As for hosting it, you would
likely want to host it as a file and download it before attempting to use
it. Then, if there are changes, upload it to overwrite.
This may apply to the special type of Base document with an embedded
HSQLDB. But using some kind of version control for web-hosted files
turns this into a caricature of a web-database.
A database server serves database rows like a http server serves web
pages, a mail server serves mail and a ftp server serves files.
Firefox is one app to view web-pages and ftp-directories, Thunderbird
communicates with mail servers and OOo's Base component is one tool to
access databases (guess where MS Access got its name from).
There are plenty of well working database servers, including free ones.
If you are really, really sure that you want to access such a database
behind a server by means of OpenOffice.org, then you need the well
formed, valid database and the carefully set up database server first
before you *finally* distribute a set of configuration, queries, forms
and reports wrapped into a "Base document" together with the respecive
user's log-in data.
Many users can use the very same database at the same time, using Base
or any other suitable front-end tool (HTML forms, MS Access, what else).
The user opens the Base document and some object therein, Base prompts
for the log-in at the remote database server before it can fill the
grids, forms and reports with data.
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