[libreoffice-users] Re: Schema in Calc

Le 31/07/2014 00:08, Paul a écrit :
> Just out of interest, why would a db driver come into play? This is a
> spreadsheet we're talking about.
>
> The mention of db schema was merely to ask why Calc doesn't have
> something like it.

How else would one obtain the schema in the first place ? As I see it
there are only two possibilities :

 - import from an existing db connection using the db source/named
ranges functionality -this requires a db context/connection and
consequently a db driver;

- import from a file (XML/UML or other Calc-recognisable file type) that
has been obtained by exporting the schema from a database.

The second way wouldn't require a db driver, but is more cumbersome IMO
than being able to query the db directly for the schema because it
requires specific matching of the structure to the internal
representation of a Calc file, i.e. implementation of a separate
import/export filter.


Alex


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