From: "Robert Comer" 

I'll give it a try and let you know...

- Bob Comer


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3e52641f{at}w3.nls.net...
> Walk in the park....
>
> OK
> 1) Make sure you have the jre installed & the JDBC driver file to hand
> somewhere on your PC
> 2) go to tools/datasources
> 3) Click on the "New Data Source"
> 4) select the database type of "JDBC" & enter the URL in
the "Data source
> URL"
> 5) Click on the tab marked "JDBC" & fill in the rest of
the details.
>
> Job done. If you then want to see the tables etc click on the
"Tables" tab
> etc.etc.
>
> This is the same on both Windows & Linux. Compare the above to Joe trying
to
> get ODBC running on Linux.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:3e524278{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Biggest ease of use problem is soluable very easily. It's
called "use
> > JDBC".
> >
> > I've seen very little about how to set up JDBC unfortunately, and for
ease
> > of use, we're talking users, not programmers.  I want to see things
about
> > how to set up your spreadsheet/wordprocessor/querytools to access data
via
> > JDBC.
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> >
> >
> > "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> > news:3e523646{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Biggest ease of use problem is soluable very easily. It's
called "use
> > JDBC".
> > >
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> > > "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> > > news:3e5234d6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > OpenOffice.org is more sophisticated and powerful than
I realized.
It
> > can
> > > >  be made to work with various database-management systems, and it
can
> do
> > > >  the mailmerge functions required by many SOHO types. Ease-of-use
> issues
> > > >  need attention.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0217.barr.html
> > > > --
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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