Hi Uwe, > May be this is a wired question, but sofar I understood that a > database is basically thought for scalc and tables of writer > documents.
Hmm? A (relational) database is for, well, any kind of "tabular" data. It has nothing do to with Calc or Writer. > However as I understand mediawiki (the software behind > wikipedia) store complete documents in a database, which usually is a > mysql database. > > So my question is couldn't OO also store whole writer documents into > the (mysql) database? It could, but it wouldn't make much sense. A relational database has its strengths in other areas. I strongly suppose even mediawiki doesn't store plain articles in the database. Instead, they will pre-process them, extract various kind of information, and put those into different tables - for quicker searching, for keeping integrity, and the like. So "storing writer documents in a MySQL database" does not have value in itself. It would only make sense if you want to do additional processing on the documents, but then this sounds more like a task for a document management system, not an office suite. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
