[libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

Am 01.02.2012 19:36, Pertti Rönnberg wrote:
> All of you.
> Thanks very much for your kindness to bother answering - and for the
> very interesting discussions.
>
> My conclusion is that LO-Base (and OO-Base ?) is not yet - and perhaps
> will not be as mentioned in the desciption at LO-Wikipedia: "A database
> management program
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_management_program>, similar to
> Microsoft Access .. etc" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access>.

The difference amounts to a multi-million Dollar budget and a decade of 
development. OOo Base was maintained by 2 Sun/Oracle employees.

It is similar to Access. Access is named Access because you can access 
databases with it. In *addition* Access provides the JET database engine 
which embeds a database backend in the frontend file. Unfortunately, 
most people work with JET which is why Access has a bad reputation among 
professionals. I've seen very nice Access frontends for MySQL databases.

Base connects ODF documents with databases. In *addition* it can embed a 
HSQLDB into the frontend file which is basically a zip archive with 
configuration and Writer documents. Unfortunately, most people use the 
embedded HSQLDB which is why Base has such a bad reputation.

If you ever had created some relational database backend using any 
database specific, mature tool for the database, you would acknowledge 
how straight-forward Base connects your database with this office suite.

Simply do your database with a database program. Base is not a database 
program.


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