Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base

Hi Tom,

I've been a Base user for 7 or 8 years. As soon as Base came out I 
switched to it. I had first used a DOS based database, then Access, then 
Paradox, and then Base. For my needs, Base works very well. I used the 
guide from OpenOffice, Getting Started With Base to get things setup The 
present version can be found here, as well as other helps: 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database
There are several small bugs in Base that are more of an annoyance than 
anything else. It is super fast (now that the Linux Java workaround has 
been found), and it is much easier to share the data between my 
computers than it was with Paradox. While they might not have developers 
working on it, there isn't anything I need to have changed. The mail 
merge with writer works perfectly. I've never lost any data. So even if 
there are not any developers working on it, I feel it is a worthy 
program/application. Anytime I've had an issue of needing to know how to 
do something, I've always been able to find an answer with on-line searches.

On 08/04/2011 04:26 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> It's probably better to stick with MS Access tbh.  Base is not being actively
> developed and there are no plans to recruit devs for it.  Hopefully some devs
> might stumble into the project at some point in the future and start working on
> the bugs.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Roberto Scotti<roberto.scotti@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Thu, 4 August, 2011 9:19:33
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base
>
> the site  http://www.libreoffice.org/features/base/   states
> "... provides native-support drivers for some of the most-widely
> employed multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS Access..."
>
> When I open Base if I choose to "connect to an existing database" the
> list of available drivers doesn't include MS Access (or JET), it
> includes only:
> JDBC
> JDBC Oracle
> Adabas D
> Foglio elettronico
> dBASE
> Testo
> MySQL
> ODBC
>
> How do you activate the MS Access native-support driver?
> Is a SQLite native-support driver available?
> Many thanks, Roberto Scotti

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