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

Hi again,
First Tom:
I will try. Let us see what comes from the deeps of my mind and if I can 
find some old projects to investigate so I can give an understandable 
answer - I'm a little afraid that not.

Andreas:
Thank you for very interesting info. Please note that I am talking from 
a consumers point of view in no way professional in databases. When I 
worked with MSAccess I plainly saw it as a program - a tool - and tried 
to learn how to get it producing the needed results, how to do data 
input - data mixing and processing - data output.
The background philosophy and programming details were of no interest - 
I did not even know to ask. Knowing could have been of help.
I am aware of what you say about "real" relational dbs;  my intention is 
to do the ODBC connection (or JDBC if necessary) between LO-Base and 
(e.g.) MySQL but if I'm correct the LO-Base (32bit) must first start 
working stable with or without a JRE.
That's why I now put my question "how" to your admirable community.
Best regards
Pepe


On 1.2.2012 20:51, Andreas Säger wrote:
> 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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