[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

Am 17.04.2012 11:34, ptoye wrote:
> Andreas Säger wrote
> > Why can't you run SQL update queries? This is trivial to do in SQL. The
> > SQL is trivial to execute by macro.
> > If you desparately want a graphical query designer for
> > update/insert/delete queries, then you should write one and store your
> > queries somewhere in the .odb container.
> Of course I can. If I can find out how to do it.
>
> But this isn't the point, is it? The real point is that database front-ends
> and macro languages are meant to make life easy, not difficult. You seem to
> dislike "sugar" - worried about your diameter? The computer was made for
> man, not man for the computer. Why not program in assembler - gives you much
> more control and isn't really that hard (I speak from years of assembler
> experience and with my tongue firmly in my cheek)?
>
> -----

You get what you pay for. The rest is about community. Unfortunately, 
this office suite has more consumers and complainers than contributors.
Regarding your remark on assembler code: A very high software stack 
imposes a new quality of problems that would be unknown on hardware level.

Fortunately, there is still the OpenOffice.org community:
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/access2base
(which could be even more useful if someone would rewrite these Basic 
routines as a true extension of UNO-components)


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