Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

Just want to say this thread has been so helpful and enlightening, I have
learned a lot about base, mysql and databases.

Tom, thanks for all your input!

Howard
On 5 Mar 2015 21:29, "Tom Davies" <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> I have been told, off-list, that i am quite wrong about what i have been
> saying about Base.
>
> I'm not clear exactly which bits of what i have said are wrong.  Almost all
> of what i said was things i had picked-up from experts on this mailing list
> or discussions elsewhere, rather than from my own direct experience or
> knowledge of the issues.  It would be nice to know where i am wrong to help
> me be less wrong in the future!
>
> Also it would be good for such corrections to be in this thread if possible
> because it has been a really good thread with a lot of good feedback about
> different people's knowledge and experience.
>
> Finally if i have given people a wrong impression about Base then it would
> be nice to be able to fix that.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> On 4 March 2015 at 16:40, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > Yeh, in attempting to clarify i did add an extra confusion!  Sorry!  The
> > HsqlDb version 1.8 is only a problem when using the internal version in
> > Base.  However Base doesn't give you much choice about what to use as the
> > internal back-end.  Just the heavily tweaked and broken version of 1.8.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> > On 4 March 2015 at 10:58, Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Am 04.03.2015 um 11:03 schrieb Tom Davies:
> > > > Hi :)
> > > > I think Noel (& Marion)'s good experience of H2 being sooo much better
> > > than
> > > > Base is purely down to them moving away from the internal back-end in
> > > > Base.  The version of HsqlDb mentioned by Noel is the 1.8 which
> Andreas
> > > > identified as being the version used as the internal back-end in Base.
> > >
> > > The problem is _not_ a particular version of a particular database. If
> > > HSQL 1.8 works for you, even that version works as a rock stable, fast
> > > and reliable backend to your Base document.
> > >
> > > Heinrich demanded an _interface_ to handle the big irons. He was not
> > > talking about a particular version of some particular big iron. He did
> > > not tell us what is wrong with the current interface. From the view
> > > point of database developers, there are several missing features. From
> > > the view point of someone who wants to build a serial letter from his
> > > spreadsheet, Base is the big and dark mystery to be avoided entirely and
> > > the serial letter wizard does not mention that one of its products is a
> > > Base document together with the serial letter.
> > >
> > >
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