Dale Erwin wrote:
James E. Lang wrote:
I just read elsewhere that OOo does not include a database engine but
rather that OOo uses a standard interface to an external database
engine. I was assuming that there was a database engine within OOo.
This probably explains my problem in that I have not first configured
OOo to use an external database engine.
OpenOffice.org 1.x.x does not include a database engine, but in
OOo 2.0 (still in beta, but stable) there is a database engine
integrated into it, even though it was not developed by the
OOo team. It is HSQLDB. Its integration into OOo was done by
a joint effort of the OOo team and the HSQL team.
Actually, 1.x.x has a database engine built in, but it contains no GUI
and no method to create a database that is an OOo document. The database
component is built on the SDBC framework, which provides native ability
for a range of database types. It is missing, however, the GUI. That
said, I would probably tell my mostly non-computer-literate mother
pretty much what Dale said. version 1.x is not a database, but 2.0 is.
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