Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

Hi :)
I think Dan is describing how to migrate tables out of the embedded back-end and then the next 
(hopefully last) stepping stone gets the tables into the latest version of HsqlDb.  Yes a pain but 
only a temporary one for most people making such a move.  

I'm not sure about H2 beign such a great alternative.  Better and clearer documentation is a big 
plus but even so it is still based on Java so presumably as Java continues to fall apart under the 
'new' owners (Oracle) it's just going to keep on being a problem.  Is it at all likely that either 
one will re-code their back-ends to C# or C++ (same thing as each other or different?) or Python or 
Qt (?) or anything else that Is also cross-platform but less troublesome?    

I have heard that corporates love to have their valuable data in java based backends but is there 
something safer that is still good for smaller amounts of data?  Errr, i guess i should ask that as 
a separate question, sorry.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 10:59
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder
>
> Le 27/01/2013 13:47, Dan Lewis a écrit :
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> > available in the 1.8 version. This does require having a version of
> > LibreOffice dedicated for this purpose (for example, using 3.6.5.2 for
> > HSQLDB 2.8, and 4.0.0 for embedded databases).
> >        The draft of chapter 3 of the Base contains discussion of this in
> > the last section.
>
> That is a considerable PITA, i.e. having two versions of LO just so you can run two different 
> versions of hsqldb. From that perspective alone, H2 is a much better choice. However, the hsqldb 
> version mismatch problem will soon hopefully be moot, as Fred Toussi (the hsqldb developer guy) is 
> currently working on resolving these problems with an upcoming version 2.30 of hsqldb.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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