Trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC, & OpenOffice 1.0

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 10, 2003 @04:17AM from the getting-it-all-working dept.

Joe Barr writes " I found a wonderful "how-to" piece called "OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC and MySQL," by John McCreesh. In the introduction, McCreesh writes about OpenOffice.org 1.0's "best kept secret" -- that secret being the fact that hidden away inside, completely unknown to most OpenOffice users, is a user-friendly front end for databases that is "a Microsoft Access (and more) equivalent." That may be so, but there is a very good reason why it's a secret: it's too damn hard getting OpenOffice and ODBC wired up correctly."

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Re:Huh? by oliverthered · 2003-02-10 04:54 · Score: 1, Flamebait

He is a Muppet.
1: he didn't checkout OpenOffice.org, take a look at Road map. There are quite a few changes going into the DB area of OpenOffice. Including native drivers, so no need for ODBC.
2: He used MYSql and didn't test postgres too. Sure MYSql's fine if you don't want to do anything fancy, but postgres has a far fuller feature set and make for better DB tests.
3: He's got an uncle called Kermit and he likes to sit half way up the stairs.

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