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Trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC, & OpenOffice 1.0
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."
Access already provides this functionality and it works right away. Are there seriously still people who don't have MS Office?
Those people really need to upgrade.
Screw ODBC. That's so 1995. What about OLE DB? Who needs the extra layer of ODBC these days, anyway?
I'm an American, and I like to talk about it a lot. I usually say "Damn, we shoulda killed more red injuns on that trail of tears" or "We should march them arab terrorists down a trail of tears like them red injuns." You know, stuff like that. Anyway, those losses are nowhere even close to the losses due to disease years earlier.
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.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.