Last night I installed Open Office on my home machine. Pretty slick. It comes with a database program. I couldn't find anything about the db, is it MySQL? Open Office is worth investigating. It has the look and feel of a mature commercial product. I think it will handle all my word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet needs.
Databases
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
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Hi,
Glad to see you found OpenOffice.org! Some users ask about documentation, so I like to point out sources.
- I've written some articles on the database for www.techtarget.com, you can see the direct links on my blog.
- I've got a blog of OpenOffice.org procedures at http://openoffice.blogs.com
- http://documentation.openoffice.org
- The online help is worth trying.
- The users@openoffice.org alias is good for questions (go to www.openoffice.org and subscribe)
- The www.oooforums.org is a good site for questions too.
Good luck with the program!
Solveig
Here's some info on the database (from the Open Office site):
The new embedded HSQLDB database engine, based on Java technology, allows creating "database documents". These simple database files don't require a back end database server like MySQL or Adabas D. All information (table definitions, data, queries, forms, reports) is stored in one XML file.
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