[libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true

Am 28.02.2012 18:08, Mark Stanton wrote:
> That'll be a good stopgap, thanks.
>
>
> I'll have a look at the code, but it looks like you're saying it's a
> slightly wider scope than just dBase.  Don't hold your breath :-)

We get editable relations from relational database servers if the 
connecting database driver supports this. So called "file based 
databases" are:
dBase, plain text (csv), spreadsheets, mail client address books, LDAP 
provide a minumum of functionality, mainly because most of them are no 
databases at all.
dBase is the only editable and indexable type of file based database and 
the built-in driver should support relations as well.
File based databases are important sources for mail merge. Spreadsheets 
are most commonly used but worst choice.

Supported SQL functions of file based databases:
http://www.openoffice.org/dba/specifications/file_based_functions.html


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