On Friday March 10 2006 02:23 pm, Scott Rhoades wrote:
> >>> "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/10/2006
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> 12:59:50 pm >>>
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> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:53 -0500, Scott Rhoades wrote:
> > I've been playing around with Base and want to learn more about
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> basic
>
> > database design. I'm a non-programmer, but not non-technical. I've
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> used
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> > databases quite a bit, but never played around with creating my own.
>
> I'd
>
> > like to learn more about concepts and design. The Base documentation
>
> for
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> > OpenOffice is not yet helpful (or even there), but even if it were,
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> I
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> > wouldn't expect it to cover database theory.
> >
> >
> >[snipped]
> >
> >Have a look at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ for starters.
>
> Lots
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> >of stuff there, such as User Guides and HOW-TOs.
>
> Thanks. I've done that. I use the documentation web site all the time
> and find it very helpful. But the three how-tos for databases don't
> contain the kind of information I'm looking for. They are for specific
> tasks (as I would expect) and pre-date Base.
But have you read the Getting Started with Base chapter of the
Getting Started Guide? It is available in PDF format at.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html
Dan
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