On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 18:23 +0200, G Stansfield wrote: > Greetings all! > > I am experimenting with migration of an application from Access into > OpenOffice 2.0 on a Win2k Pro box. I have a number of queries that have > probably been discussed previously, so I am looking for pointers to > relevant archives / forums / issue numbers - though solutions would be > great! > > a) I get some odb files on disc to grow dramatically and unexpectedly. > This happens if I edit a table definion when data is present - and > neither deleting the data nor the entire table will cause the file to > get smaller, even on save / exit the application. > > b) Form wizard behaves strangely if I include date fields in the list of > items to place on the form. > > c) Can I import & export data using csv format text files (or any other > ASCII flat file format) as I can with Access? Is SQL import data the > best or only way? > > d) Can I extract table definitions as SQL statements that can be used to > recreate the tables under MySQL or PostgreSQL? > > e) Is there an equivalent of the "load errors" file under Access to > receive lines of data that are rejected during a paste operation? How to > set one up? >
Most of your questions are answered by http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0110GS-GettingStartedWithBase.pdf and should help you. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
