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."

Comments

Something open source?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hard to set up?! Never!

MySQL, ODBC, OpenOffice haikus

[Anonymous Coward]

Install MySQL?
Better get support contract
Config files scattered

ODBC's pow'r
Links data hither and yon
Like many silkworms

Free office software
Fighting forces from Redmond
Freedom is power

Relevant comments
Readers like them, yes they do
Thoughtful minds welcomed

Lame haikus you say?
OK bub, then write your own
Not so easy, huh?

Re:MySQL, ODBC, OpenOffice haikus

[Chocolate Teapot]

You are a troll
A shameless waste of bandwidth
Keep up the good work ;)

Re:MySQL, ODBC, OpenOffice haikus

[Chocolate Teapot]

Oh crap! I screwed up!
Moderators do your worst
Flame my sorry ass

Re:MySQL haiku: get it right

[Chocolate Teapot]

Petty nitpicker
You spoiled the joke entirely
I thought it was good.

Re:Uh, he's a Linuxworld columnist?

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm... I didn't have any problems, and my name's monkey boy.

Re:Uh, he's a Linuxworld columnist?

[sporty]

It sounds like you want the Linux equivalent to come with a 10-page exam.

4 pages max. Unless it was an essay.

Re:Trail of Tears?

[Anonymous Coward]

probably for the same reason you can't spell "you're"

Re:Huh?

[Tackhead]

> 3) simply installed the RPMs.
>
> I'm not sure what the hell qualifies this guy to be able to do much of anything in Linux much less tie MySQL to OO via ODBC.

Yeah! Stupid fucking luzer! He heard that "RPMs" were packages you "installed". So he installed them!

What a fucking luser. He's not worthy of running MySQL with an office package via ODBC.

He's, like, such a fucking luser, he's only qualified to... umm... click SETUP.EXE and install MS Access and MS Office, which, umm... oh...

...look. We were just kidding all along. Some people have taken that to mean that this is using spreadsheets hooked into live databases to solve engineering or business problems.

It's not. It's about using a cool technology (MySQL) and another cool technoogy (Open Office) and a third cool technology (ODBC), and, like, who cares if only the developers on the project can get it to work. Getting it to work - scratching that itch - is what counts. Once we've got it working, we can go on to playing with the next shiny thing.

If it's about using the software, just use that Microsoft crap. What's that? You say that even though it's crap, at least you can install it in 20 minutes and start doing your business or engineering problems with it? Geez, it's always about you, isn't it?

Re:MySQL haiku: get it right

[seanmeister]

You think that's odd? I've got a co-worker who pronounces EVERY three-letter file extension as though it was a word. "BMP" = "bump"... "DBF" = "dibbif".. you get the idea. I've been thinking about getting him a Mac just so he'd run out of things to say.

Re:It's not offensive because of p.c.-ity...

[PyromanFO]

"This article's title is like naming your Cisco Router "The Auswitch""

Id have to disagree, the article title is different from your example because I found your example funny. :) The article isn't really all that funny, but "The Auswitch"? Thats gold. Maybe Im a sucker for bad puns.