On Feb 08, 2012, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: > On another thread, 'spreadsheet or database', one opinion seemed to > be that ordinary no-expert 'newies' are afraid of using dbs because > they feel it difficult, it requires planning and designing, queries > are too complicated, etc.
That is not my problem; I've been using databases since about 1985. I already use MySQL in Linux but for this project I need Windows which is why I am trying to connect with LO. > embedded HSQLDB - I found that this doesn't work in Linux but it does in Windows. You get a window where you can type SQL commands but I found you can do select and create table but not show tables or describe so it is limited. > And now this very long thread explains that such a connection (ODBC) > does not work Er... all I said was that it didn't work for me; maybe I'm doing something wrong. > If there is no solution for the problem I must skip LO-Base. Don't give up; surely there must be _someone_ who has it working. Lets try and find them. >a report engine - which also seems to be impossible. Oh, no. regards, 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
