Elizabeth Young wrote:
Elizabeth Young wrote:
I have just installed Open Office. I am running Windows XP version
5.1 w/ service pack 2 installed.
I am trying to create a database using open office base program.
This is what I do and the error message I get.
I use the start menu to find OpenOffice.orgBase and open it.
I leave the radio buttons on the default "create new database" and go
to the next step, again leaving the radio buttons as is "yes,
register the database for me" and checking "Open the database for
editing".
I click 'finish' and save it with the exciting title of 'new
database' because I'm just playing here.
All good so far, but when I click on the Tables icon, because I wish
to create a few tables, I get this message:
"The connection to the datasource "New Database" could not be
established"
Selecting "more" yields
Error code: -1
java/sql/Savepoint
I believe that I am not perhaps understanding how this program works.
I expected it to behave rather like Access, as that would seem to be
the analogous program?
Am I supposed to be connecting to something? I did not think so.
Is there something that I need to patch or otherwise alter in my
Windows setup?
I have spent about 1/2 hour shuffling through the various faqs on the
oo site and even tried a google search to no avail.
Thanks for reading all that
Elizabeth Young
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OK, an update.
I uninstalled OpenOffice, and installed the latest and greatest Java
1.5.0_09
Reinstalled OpenOffice
Same problem.
However, in stomping around the menus, I discovered a database called
biblio, which seems to have been added as part of the installation.
That database seems to work ok.
still puzzled
Elizabeth Young
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Elizabeth, I do not use Base, but since no one has replied, I'll be so
bold as to suggest that you may need to register your database as a data
source before you can do whatever it is that you want to do.
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