Michael Peligro wrote: >6/20/02 5:20:33 PM, Stephen Moore, a young Linux Jedi Knight wrote: > > > >>I have used this with postgres and it _rocks_! >> >>Well worth trying out. >> >> > >Thanks for the good news! > >How many rows of data did you extract? > I didn't extract I linked the data, I wass particularly interested in mucking about with our payroll so only about 400 records in one table and 1000 in another. I t all seemed to work fine. I was using Star office (which has online working help) as opposed to openoffice and it was a little crashy, seemed ok in general use but as you explored it, it would occasionally crash (saving the data first).
All in all a far superior experience to rebooting into windows, opening access mucking about discovering you wanted to do something in linux, rebooting etc. > Can OpenOffice handle large >set of records from postgres? Was OpenOffice stable and reliable while >running the query? Did you do multi-table, multi-join, multi-column >queries? (please excuse my "relational" terminology. I've never >used an object-oriented database before.) > >It's really nice when we can do ad-hoc queries on a postgres database >once in a while with OpenOffice. Hope it helps save our a*s submitting >reports to our "perpetually-stern-face-i'll-eat-you-facial-frown" bosses. > >Regards, > >Michael > > > > > >_ >Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph >To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
