On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 22:38 -0500, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On 2/1/06, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 19:18 -0500, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> > > 1.)  from Base, how does one create a compound primary key?
> > > 2.)  In usenet there's a group, mailing.comp.open-office, which I
> > > thought was this group.  Guess it's not, since posts to that group
> > > aren't showing up here.
> > >
> > > I've found that it's possible from SQL to do something like:
> > >
> > >  PRIMARY KEY(student, course)
> > >
> > > but I'd like to do that from the "Base" GUI, not SQL, if possible.
> > > Must I use SQL to do that?
> > >
> > > When designing a table, Base only seems to allow one to select a
> > > single field, column, as primary key (?).  Presumably the HSQLDB
> > > engine allows compound primary keys.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I believe you were answered in [EMAIL PROTECTED] so check that
> > list, please.
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> >
> >
> Right, thanks.  It's possible, but requires use either of SQL or
> something which looks like SQL.  For that reason I decided to go with
> MySQL for the time being--but Base is a great project and I'll watch
> it with great interest :)
> 

You do realize that OOo will also interface with MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Access and many other DBMS? Simply use the right driver.
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