Just want to say this thread has been so helpful and enlightening, I have learned a lot about base, mysql and databases.
Tom, thanks for all your input! Howard On 5 Mar 2015 21:29, "Tom Davies" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > I have been told, off-list, that i am quite wrong about what i have been > saying about Base. > > I'm not clear exactly which bits of what i have said are wrong. Almost all > of what i said was things i had picked-up from experts on this mailing list > or discussions elsewhere, rather than from my own direct experience or > knowledge of the issues. It would be nice to know where i am wrong to help > me be less wrong in the future! > > Also it would be good for such corrections to be in this thread if possible > because it has been a really good thread with a lot of good feedback about > different people's knowledge and experience. > > Finally if i have given people a wrong impression about Base then it would > be nice to be able to fix that. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > On 4 March 2015 at 16:40, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi :) > > Yeh, in attempting to clarify i did add an extra confusion! Sorry! The > > HsqlDb version 1.8 is only a problem when using the internal version in > > Base. However Base doesn't give you much choice about what to use as the > > internal back-end. Just the heavily tweaked and broken version of 1.8. > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > On 4 March 2015 at 10:58, Andreas Säger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Am 04.03.2015 um 11:03 schrieb Tom Davies: > >> > Hi :) > >> > I think Noel (& Marion)'s good experience of H2 being sooo much better > >> than > >> > Base is purely down to them moving away from the internal back-end in > >> > Base. The version of HsqlDb mentioned by Noel is the 1.8 which > Andreas > >> > identified as being the version used as the internal back-end in Base. > >> > > >> > >> The problem is _not_ a particular version of a particular database. If > >> HSQL 1.8 works for you, even that version works as a rock stable, fast > >> and reliable backend to your Base document. > >> > >> Heinrich demanded an _interface_ to handle the big irons. He was not > >> talking about a particular version of some particular big iron. He did > >> not tell us what is wrong with the current interface. From the view > >> point of database developers, there are several missing features. From > >> the view point of someone who wants to build a serial letter from his > >> spreadsheet, Base is the big and dark mystery to be avoided entirely and > >> the serial letter wizard does not mention that one of its products is a > >> Base document together with the serial letter. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe 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 > >> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe 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 > -- To unsubscribe 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
