Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB [SOLVED]

On 2012-11-06 20:41, Ian Whitfield wrote:
> Thanks Guys!! (Girvin, Henirich, Dan, Mas and maybe others!!)
>
> You have all added some pieces to the Jigsaw and I'm pleased to say......
>
> *I now have Base working with a MySQL Database!!!! (at last!!)*
>
> As Girvin would say "My Bad"!! I had been looking for the file 
> 'my.cfg' when it should have been 'my.cnf'. This was the last missing 
> piece, once I found it and found the "skip-networking" line inside it 
> and commented it out everything worked fine.
>
> So once again guys - thanks for sticking with me - awesome support and 
> I do appreciate it!!
>
> Now the fun starts - I have already designed my Form yesterday but now 
> need to puzzle out how to get all my data out of the old DB into the 
> new SQL DB. And then re-write all my Queries and reports.
>
> Greatly appreciated - regards from South Africa
>
> IanW
> Pretoria RSA.
If you can get your data out of the old database as a csv file it is 
real easy to load into MySQL.
You can use the command line MySQL command or if you install webmin it 
makes database admin easy.
Steve


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