From: "Adam Flinton" 

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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