Re: [libreoffice-users] HSLQLDB syntax

To keep the record straight, Stardivision's StarOffice did not use 
HSQLDB.  Unless the name has been changed, Stardivision used the ADABASE 
D database engine in their StarOffice.  As far as I can research, Sun 
dropped the proprietary Adabase D engine in favor of HSQLDB after it 
took over the StarOffice code from Stardivision.  I never was able to 
get Adabase D working for me back then, but I was ignorant of real 
(non-Access) databases then and the StarOffice Adabase D database 
documentation was terrible.
Girvin Herr


V Stuart Foote wrote:
> STOP!
>
> Anne, glad you're back but seriously?
>
> HSQLDB  is the short title and Web address for HyperSQL, the Java language based SQL relational 
> database that StarOffice then Sun chose as the imbedded database for the project.
>
> Currently we include the 1.8 release, and efforts will either see that ripped out of LibreOffice to 
> be replaced, or the version of HSQLDB will be upgraded to a current 2.3 release.
>
> Mark, et al., all the details you could ever want  are on the project webpage at hsqldb.org, just 
> mind the version differences.
>
> Stuart
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Tom Davies [tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 11:15 AM
> To: anne-ology; Mark LaPierre
> Cc: Mail List LibreOffice
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] HSLQLDB syntax
>
> Hi :)
> My guess is that he meant
>
> H Sql Db
>
> SQL = the standard language used by most database programs.  Most add a little bit (few extra 
> commands and stuff) to the basic language to help ensure that people can't easily switch to another 
> program even though they all ostensibly use Sql.
>
> Db = Database
>
> H is the only bit that distinguishes exactly which program is being talked about.
>
> Note that other programs also use Sql or Db in their name.  For example MySql/MariaDb, Postgresql.  
> Only Access doesn't have any of that in it's name.  Of course MS make many claims that Access does use 
> Sql but it's such a heavily tweaked version of Sql that it's almost unrecognisable.  If you learn 
> Access then you need to forget&re-learn if you want to switch to anything else.  The others tend to 
> just have a few differences so it's not so tough to move between them.  At least, so i have heard.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>   
> > ________________________________
> > From: anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>
> > To: Mark LaPierre <marklapier@aol.com>
> > Cc: Mail List LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> > Sent: Monday, 15 July 2013, 16:38
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] HSLQLDB syntax
> >
> >
> >        And just what is HSLQLDB  ;-)
> >
> >        oh, memorizing acronyms seems to me a mighty complicated way to
> > organize one's thoughts ...
> >                 wouldn't it be simpler - easier - to just state the
> > object(s) rather than leaving the listener trying to interpret what's being
> > meant by what's being said  ;-)
> >
> >       see -  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym
> >
> >        AND - did you happen to notice in that URL, this phenomenon only
> > started in 1943 ;-)
> >                 before then communication was simply speaking to be
> > understood  ;-)
> >
> >        BTW - many of these acronyms are duplicated - which causes even more
> > confusion to the listener  ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     
> > > On 07/13/2013 05:36 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > >       
> > > > HSLQLDB is a bit picky about the syntax
> > > >         
> > > Does anyone know where I can find a good reference on HSLQLDB syntax?
> > >
> > >       
>
>
>   

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