Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - using external database tables

2011-10-13 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 09:39 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: > I think the simple answer to your question ("Is this the same in LO") > is "yes". But, as others have suggested, it is because you haven't > quite got the right way of looking at it. > > Using a database rather than a spreadsheet allows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - using external database tables

2011-10-13 Thread planas
John On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 07:14 +0100, John Talbut wrote: > Hi > > OK, let me go back to square 1. > > First of all I am not talking about a situation in which LibreOffice > base needs to access data tables in separate files that use different > database structures, e.g. one table is in MyS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - using external database tables

2011-10-13 Thread Mark Stanton
I think the simple answer to your question ("Is this the same in LO") is "yes". But, as others have suggested, it is because you haven't quite got the right way of looking at it. Using a database rather than a spreadsheet allows you to group things according to the content of the data rather t

[libreoffice-users] Base - using external database tables

2011-10-12 Thread John Talbut
Hi OK, let me go back to square 1. First of all I am not talking about a situation in which LibreOffice base needs to access data tables in separate files that use different database structures, e.g. one table is in MySQL and another is in PostgreSQL. This may be something that others need a