From: "Adam Flinton" 

I find that so bizarre that it's a "best kept secret". Hey &
what's more.....it works well with JDBC thus making everything easier than
ODBC & getting you into just about every DB known to man.

Instead of whinging about ODBC being hard just use JDBC which is easy.


Adam



"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
news:3e47a49e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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" ƒ?" 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.
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0207.barr.html
>
>
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