An answer to Access: OOo + ODBC

Posted by garym on Fri, 06/14/2002 - 09:34

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OOo/StarOffice is not just an affordable trade up from MsOffice, it can also replace MsAccess. \"One of the hidden secrets of OpenOffice.org 1.0 is that it also has a great user-friendly database front end,\" or so says unixODBC\'s OOo/ODBC HOWTO. It\'s a bit to digest (give it to your tech support) but this nearly anonymous whitepaper provides the detailed recipies to link StarOffice/OOo to almost any proprietary or open-source database. Forget the puny girly-boy databases: \"Hello, MIS? I need to move my address book to the Teradata.\"

Full Story: OpenOffice.org/MySQL HowTo (PDF)'