--- On Wed, 8/2/12, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Tom Davies <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Installing MySQL Connector To: ... Date: Wednesday, 8 February, 2012, 16:51 Hi :) 1. Don't worry about people being weird on-list. Not everyone has good people skills as they might have more skill in other crucial areas. Lets get this back on the list as a new thread. 2. Dan, Alex, Andreas and Jay have more skill and knowledge about Base than most of us. Heinrich and i are stumbling our way through with Heinrich gaining hands-on experience in Windows. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 8/2/12, Tony Sumner <[email protected]> wrote: From: Tony Sumner <[email protected]> Subject: Installing MySQL Connector To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 8 February, 2012, 16:22 Thanks for your help. I have made some progress but first of all my apologies for (inadvertently) hijacking someone else's thread. I have no idea how that happened and it has not happened before on any of the many mailing lists I have used. To make sure it does not happen again I am not using the list for this. It's interesting, Heinrich, to learn that the native connector works only in Vista; I am on Windows XP. I don't understand why an extension should be required when LO says that the 'ODBC connector is built-in'. Dan suggests I obtain it and Tom says there isn't one so I can only report on what happens with the built-in one. I downloaded the Windows connector from MySQL.com and executed the MSI file mysql-connector-odbc-5.1.10-win32.msi which gave me a file myodbc-installer.exe* and a README.txt which said run the .exe file in a command window. I tried RUN thinking that was the same thing which is why I got a window for 1ms. This time I went to Command Prompt and ran it there and got a help file which explained what to do. I did what it said and everything went well, apparently, ie I registered a driver and created a database source name. Then to LO where I selected 'connect to an existing database', quoted the DSN and clicked on 'test connection'. The result was "[MySQL][ODBC Driver] can't connect to MySQL server@localhost". So all I have done is confirm that it doesn't work. Maybe I'll try JDBC -- but it did say that ODBC is built in. Thanks again Tony -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
